Via Salaria Via Salaria The Via Salaria was an ancient Roman road in Italy. It eventually ran from Rome (from Porta Salaria of the Aurelian Walls) to "Castrum Truentinum" (Porto d'Ascoli) on the Adriatic coast, a distance of 242 km. The road also passed through Reate (Rieti) and Asculum (Ascoli Piceno). The Via Salaria owes its name to the Latin word for "salt", since it was the route by which the Sabines living nearer the Tyrrhenian sea came to fetch salt from the marshes at the mouth of the Tiber, the Campus Salinarum, while those nearer the Adriatic Sea used it to
Latin obscenity the Latin word for the vulva ("cunnus") and the verb "to lick" ("linguere", cf. "lingua" "tongue"). These include "sinus", "indentation", and "fossa", "ditch". The modern scientific or polite words "vulva" and "vagina" both stem from Latin, but originally they had different meanings. The word "vāgīna" is the Latin word for scabbard or sword-sheath. "Vulva" (or "volva") in classical Latin generally signified the womb, especially in medical writing, and also it is also common in the Vetus Latina (pre-Jerome) version of the Bible. The meanings of "vagina" and "vulva" have changed by means of metaphor and metonymy, respectively. Other words for