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
Vulgar Latin quality of", while "" specialized into a verb denoting location or dwelling, or state of health. The copula (that is, the verb signifying "to be") of Classical Latin was '. This evolved to *"essere" in Vulgar Latin by attaching the common infinitive suffix "-re" to the classical infinitive; this produced Italian ' and French ' through Proto-Gallo-Romance *"essre" and Old French ' as well as Spanish and Portuguese "" (Romanian "a " derives from "fieri", which means "to become"). In Vulgar Latin a second copula developed utilizing the verb ', which originally meant (and is cognate with) "to stand", to