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 later. "Merda" is productive in the Romance languages, and is the obvious etymon of French "merde", Spanish "mierda", and in Vegliot Dalmatian "miarda". It is preserved unaltered in Catalan, Galician, Italian, Portuguese, and Sardinian. It was preserved in Romanian too, not for feces, where "căcat" (derived from "caco") is used instead, but in the word "dezmierda", originally meaning "to clean the bottom of (an infant)"; subsequently becoming "to cuddle" or "to fondle". "Pēdō", "pēdere, pepēdī, pēditum" is the basic Latin word for passing intestinal wind. In the "Sermones" 1.8, 46, Horace writes: Christopher Smart translates this passage as "from my