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
Escargot English of the French word "escargot" to mean "edible snail" dates from 1892. The French word (1549) derives from "escaragol" (Provençal) and thence "escargol" (Old French), and is ultimately – via Vulgar Latin "coculium" and Classical Latin "conchylium" – from the Ancient Greek "konchylion (κογχύλιον)", which meant "edible shellfish, oyster". The "Online Etymological Dictionary" writes, "The form of the word in Provençal and French seems to have been influenced by words related to "scarab"." Not all species of land snail are edible, and many are too small to make it worthwhile to prepare and cook them. Even among the edible