Via Mizner today exactly as Addison Mizner envisioned it to be. Via Mizner The Via Mizner is a historic site in Palm Beach, Florida. It is located at 337–339 Worth Avenue. On April 1, 1993, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. A “via” is derived from the Latin word meaning “way” or “path” and is defined by the World English Dictionary as a “way, road, channel, course of uncertain origin.” Via Mizner meanders approximately and connects Palm Beach's premier shopping street, Worth Avenue, to Peruvian Avenue, one city block to the north. The Via was created by
Latin obscenity used in a metaphorical sense, as at Martial 3.17, speaking of a tart which had been blown on by a man with impure breath (caused no doubt by oral sex) to cool it down: The politer terms for "merda" in Classical Latin were "stercus" (gen. "stercoris"), "manure" and "fimum" or "fimus", "filth." "Stercus" was used frequently in the Vulgate, as in its well-known translation of Psalm 112:7: (Psalm 113:7 in the KJV.) In Classical Latin, "faex", plural "faecēs", meant the dregs, such as are found in a bottle of wine; the word did not acquire the sense of feces until