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 syntax "pōnit castra". There are however certain constraints; for example, in prose a monosyllabic preposition such as "in" 'in' generally precedes its noun (e.g. "in Italiā" 'in Italy'). Moreover, even though adjectives can both precede and follow the noun, there is a tendency for different kinds of adjectives to take different positions; for example adjectives of size usually come before the noun ("magnā vōce" 'in a loud voice', rarely "vōce magnā"), while 'modifiers that are more important than their noun or that specify it' (e.g. "Via Appia" 'the Appian Way') usually follow it. To explain Latin word order there are two