Find another word for luna. In this page you can discover 3 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for luna, like: vega, terra and aurora.
The Moon was first visited by the Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 in 1959.
Early names for it are Lac argenti and Luna cornea, the first referring to its form when freshly precipitated, the latter to its appearance after fusion.
But beyond Florentia, between Luca (Lucca) and Luna, we find another Forum Clodii, and the Antonine Itinerary gives the route from Luca to Rome as being by the Via Clodia - wrongly as regards the portion from Florentia southwards, but perhaps rightly as regards that from Luca to Florentia.
It arose as the successor of the ancient Luna, 3 m.
In that case the Clodius whose name the road bears, possibly C. Clodius Vestalis (c. 43 B.C.), was responsible for the construction of the first portion and of that from Florentia to Luca (and Luna), and the founder of the two Fora Clodii.