Via Latina same style and technique. Via Latina The Via Latina (Latin for "Latin Road") was a Roman road of Italy, running southeast from Rome for about 200 kilometers. It led from the Porta Latina in the Aurelian walls of Rome to the pass of Mount Algidus; it was important in the early military history of Rome. It must have preceded the Via Appia as a route to Campania, in as much as the Latin colony at Cales was founded in 334 BC and must have been accessible from Rome by road, whereas the Via Appia was made only twenty-two years later.
Latin obscenity later. "Merda" is productive in the Romance languages, and is the obvious etymon of French "merde", Spanish "mierda", and in Vegliot Dalmatian "miarda". It is preserved unaltered in Catalan, Galician, Italian, Portuguese, and Sardinian. It was preserved in Romanian too, not for feces, where "căcat" (derived from "caco") is used instead, but in the word "dezmierda", originally meaning "to clean the bottom of (an infant)"; subsequently becoming "to cuddle" or "to fondle". "Pēdō", "pēdere, pepēdī, pēditum" is the basic Latin word for passing intestinal wind. In the "Sermones" 1.8, 46, Horace writes: Christopher Smart translates this passage as "from my