Via Latina 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. It follows, too, a
Latin obscenity the Latin word for the vulva ("cunnus") and the verb "to lick" ("linguere", cf. "lingua" "tongue"). These include "sinus", "indentation", and "fossa", "ditch". The modern scientific or polite words "vulva" and "vagina" both stem from Latin, but originally they had different meanings. The word "vāgīna" is the Latin word for scabbard or sword-sheath. "Vulva" (or "volva") in classical Latin generally signified the womb, especially in medical writing, and also it is also common in the Vetus Latina (pre-Jerome) version of the Bible. The meanings of "vagina" and "vulva" have changed by means of metaphor and metonymy, respectively. Other words for