Via Latina Via Latina The Via Latina (Latin for "Latin Road") was a Roman road of Italy, running southeast from Rome for about 200 kilometers. It led from the Porta Latina in the Aurelian walls of Rome to the pass of Mount Algidus; it was important in the early military history of Rome. It must have preceded the Via Appia as a route to Campania, in as much as the Latin colony at Cales was founded in 334 BC and must have been accessible from Rome by road, whereas the Via Appia was made only twenty-two years later. It follows, too, a
Data (word) Data (word) The word data has generated considerable controversy on whether it is an uncountable noun used with verbs conjugated in the singular, or should be treated as the plural of the now-rarely-used "datum". In one sense, "data" is the plural form of "datum". "Datum" actually can also be a count noun with the plural "datums" (see usage in datum article) that can be used with cardinal numbers (e.g. "80 datums"); "data" (originally a Latin plural) is not used like a normal count noun with cardinal numbers and can be plural with such plural determiners as "these" and "many" or