Via Nomentana 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 merged in the Via Salaria a few kilometers beyond Nomentum. It is followed as far as Nomentum by the modern state road, but some traces of its pavement still exist. Originally starting from now-destroyed Porta Collina in the Servian Walls, in the third century emperor Aurelian build
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