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
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