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
White wagtail it still bears its original name of "Motacilla alba". The Latin genus name originally meant "little mover", but certain medieval writers thought it meant "wag-tail", giving rise to a new Latin word "cilla" for "tail". The specific epithet "alba" is Latin for "white". Within the wagtail genus "Motacilla", the white wagtail's closest genetic relatives appear to be other black-and-white wagtails such as the Japanese wagtail, "Motacilla grandis", and the white-browed wagtail, "Motacilla madaraspatensis" (and possibly the Mekong wagtail, "Motacilla samveasnae", the phylogenetic position of which is mysterious), with which it appears to form a superspecies. However, mtDNA cytochrome "b" and