Via Salaria di Quintodecimo, Ponte Romano (Acquasanta), Ponte Salario and Ponte Sambuco. Via Salaria The Via Salaria was an ancient Roman road in Italy. It eventually ran from Rome (from Porta Salaria of the Aurelian Walls) to "Castrum Truentinum" (Porto d'Ascoli) on the Adriatic coast, a distance of 242 km. The road also passed through Reate (Rieti) and Asculum (Ascoli Piceno). The Via Salaria owes its name to the Latin word for "salt", since it was the route by which the Sabines living nearer the Tyrrhenian sea came to fetch salt from the marshes at the mouth of the Tiber, the Campus
Latin obscenity predatory activities of prostitutes. The Latin verb "prōstō" meant "to be up for sale" and "prōstituō" meant "to expose for public sale." The poet Juvenal (6.120-3) describes how the disgraced Empress Messalina used to enjoy playing the part of a prostitute in a brothel: The man in charge of the brothel, who dismissed the girls at closing time, was the pimp or "lēnō" (Juvenal 6.127). The neuter word "scortum" could refer to either a male or female prostitute. This word may relate to Latin "scorteus", "made of leather or hide", much as English refers to the "skin trade". Lewis and