Via Tiburtina Via Tiburtina Via Tiburtina is an ancient road in Italy leading east-northeast from Rome to Tivoli (Latin, Tibur) and then on to Pescara (Latin, Aternum). It was built by the Roman consul Marcus Valerius Maximus around 286 BC and later lengthened to the territories of the Marsi and the Aequi, in the Abruzzo, as Via Valeria. Its total length was approximately 200 km from Rome to Aternum (the modern Pescara). It exited Rome through the Aurelian Wall at the Porta Tiburtina, and through the Servian Wall at the Porta Esquilina. Historians assert that the Via Tiburtina must have come into
Bias against left-handed people "left" itself derives from the Anglo-Saxon word "lyft", "weak". In Ancient Greek both words meaning "left" were euphemisms: the word ἀριστερός, "aristerós" (the standard word in Modern Greek as well) is derived from ἂριστος, "áristos", "best", and the word εὺώνυμος, "euōnymos", "of good name", is another euphemism used in lieu of "ill-named". The Latin adjective "sinister/sinistra/sinistrum" originally meant "left" but took on meanings of "evil" or "unlucky" by the Classical Latin era, and this double meaning survives in European derivatives of Latin, and in the English word "sinister". Alternatively, "sinister" comes from the Latin word "sinus" meaning "pocket": a traditional