Via Nomentana Via Nomentana Via Nomentana is an ancient road of Italy, leading North-East from Rome to Nomentum (modern Mentana), a distance of . It originally bore the name "Via Ficulensis", from the old Latin village of Ficulea, about from Rome. It was subsequently extended to Nomentum, but never became an important high road, and merged in the Via Salaria a few kilometers beyond Nomentum. It is followed as far as Nomentum by the modern state road, but some traces of its pavement still exist. Originally starting from now-destroyed Porta Collina in the Servian Walls, in the third century emperor Aurelian build
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