Via Nomentana the Porta Nomentana in his new set of walls. Pope Pius IV decided to move the first stretch of the road and built the Porta Pia for this purpose. There are the remains of at least one Roman bridge along the road, which is the Ponte Nomentano. 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
Latin obscenity be related to the marriage deity Mutunus Tutunus. Although "mūtō" itself is rare, the derivative "mūtūniātus" ("well-endowed") is found twice in Martial, as at 3.73: The derivative "mūtōnium" is found in Lucilius and in two Pompeian graffiti. The Latin word "pēnis" itself originally meant "tail". Cicero's "ad Familiārēs", 9.22, observes that "pēnis" originally was an innocuous word, but that the meaning of male sexual organ had become primary by his day. The euphemism is used occasionally by Catullus, Persius, Juvenal, and Martial, and even once by the historian Sallust, who writes that the supporters of the anti-government rebel Catiline included