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 from Latin "cauda/cōda" "tail". The Portuguese "penis", first attested in the 10th century, is thought to derive from a vulgar Latin word "*caraculum" "a little stake". The Italian "" has no obvious Latin ancestor. A number of different suggestions have been made for its origin, but none has yet gained general acceptance. The basic word for the testicles in Latin was "cōleī" (singular: "cōleus"). It appears to have had an alternative form *"cōleōnēs" (singular: "cōleō"), from which the Spanish "cojones" and other Romance forms are derived. (One late Latin source has the spelling "culiones"). The etymology of "cōleī" is obscure.