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 for urine was "ūrīna", which is attested in Latin as early as Cicero, and became the usual polite term. The relationship with the Greek verb ("oureō"), "to urinate", is not clear. In Classical Latin, however, the verb "ūrīnārī" meant "to dive into water", and "ūrīnātor" was "a diver", "ūrīnantēs" "those who dive". Catullus (37) writes contemptuously of a certain Spaniard who was one of the lovers of his girlfriend Lesbia: Another word for urine, but less commonly used, was "lōtium". This word relates to "lavāre", "to wash". The Romans, innocent of soap, collected urine as a source of ammonia to