This is a cosmetic question, but these are some suggestions to give names to the Colonia Nova streets, gates and roads, using real (or realistic) Roman names.
And a [i:2n9ijrqm]caveat[/i:2n9ijrqm]: my Latin is a bit (a lot) rusty, so I'm sure there are a lot of mistakes to correct, and I call to do it.
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[u:2n9ijrqm]Gates:[/u:2n9ijrqm][/b:2n9ijrqm]
We have four gates (latin [i:2n9ijrqm]Porta[/i:2n9ijrqm], pl. [i:2n9ijrqm]Portae[/i:2n9ijrqm]) on the city, and we have several options to name them.
[b:2n9ijrqm]One.[/b:2n9ijrqm]
A mere geographical description. [i:2n9ijrqm]Porta Septemtrionis [/i:2n9ijrqm](North), [i:2n9ijrqm]Meridiani [/i:2n9ijrqm](South), [i:2n9ijrqm]Occidentis [/i:2n9ijrqm](West), [i:2n9ijrqm]Orientis [/i:2n9ijrqm](East).
[b:2n9ijrqm]Two.[/b:2n9ijrqm]
Following the names of the gates of ancient roman fortifications (the cities followed this model). [i:2n9ijrqm]Porta Praetoria[/i:2n9ijrqm] (South), [i:2n9ijrqm]Decumana [/i:2n9ijrqm](North), [i:2n9ijrqm]Principalis Sinistra[/i:2n9ijrqm] (East) and [i:2n9ijrqm]Principalis Dextra[/i:2n9ijrqm] (West).
[b:2n9ijrqm]Three.[/b:2n9ijrqm]
Names related to use. Given that we have only two real gates, we can name them using their direction. [i:2n9ijrqm]Porta Theatri [/i:2n9ijrqm][Theater Gate] (East), and [i:2n9ijrqm]Porta Flumentana[/i:2n9ijrqm] [River Gate] (South).
[b:2n9ijrqm]Four.[/b:2n9ijrqm]
Names related to gods and goddesses or emperors. As Colonia Nova is under the protection of Minerva and Diana, we could have a [i:2n9ijrqm]Porta Minervae[/i:2n9ijrqm] (South, since Minerva's statue is there) and [i:2n9ijrqm]Porta Dianae[/i:2n9ijrqm] (West). We could also have some gates named after Roman emperors, like a [i:2n9ijrqm]Porta Claudia [/i:2n9ijrqm]or a [i:2n9ijrqm]Porta Iulia.[/i:2n9ijrqm]
[b:2n9ijrqm]Five.[/b:2n9ijrqm]
Names from real roman gates in Roman cities. I'd suggest [i:2n9ijrqm]Porta Nigra[/i:2n9ijrqm] (in Trier, Germany, World Heritage), [i:2n9ijrqm]Porta Praetoria[/i:2n9ijrqm] (this is a common name, but in real life Cologne they keep the remains of this gate), [i:2n9ijrqm]Porta Marina[/i:2n9ijrqm] (in Pompeii), and P[i:2n9ijrqm]orta Venere[/i:2n9ijrqm] (in Rome).
[b:2n9ijrqm][u:2n9ijrqm]Streets ([i:2n9ijrqm]vici[/i:2n9ijrqm]) and roads ([i:2n9ijrqm]viae[/i:2n9ijrqm])[/u:2n9ijrqm][/b:2n9ijrqm]
In ancient Rome, and for our purposes, there was two main streets and road types. Roads ([i:2n9ijrqm]via[/i:2n9ijrqm], pl. [i:2n9ijrqm]viae[/i:2n9ijrqm]) were, inside or outside the city, the roads with space for two carts (around 5 meters wide), and streets ([i:2n9ijrqm]vicus[/i:2n9ijrqm], pl. [i:2n9ijrqm]vici[/i:2n9ijrqm]).
I think we have four [i:2n9ijrqm]viae [/i:2n9ijrqm]from the forum to the wall, two [i:2n9ijrqm]viae [/i:2n9ijrqm]from the wall (one going to the theatre, another one across the river), and another two ones, from the theatre area southward and from the bridge area, west and eastward. In total, we have eight [i:2n9ijrqm]viae[/i:2n9ijrqm].
In ancient Rome [i:2n9ijrqm]viae [/i:2n9ijrqm]had the name of the builder ([i:2n9ijrqm]via Appia[/i:2n9ijrqm], [i:2n9ijrqm]via Aurelia[/i:2n9ijrqm]), or the name of the place where the road went (via [i:2n9ijrqm]Praenestrina [/i:2n9ijrqm][to Praenestre], via [i:2n9ijrqm]Portuensis [/i:2n9ijrqm][to the port]).
Aliasi has suggested to me to keep the tradition that began in Neufreistadt, and honor the builders of Colonia Nova in the street names. I think this is a bit difficult, as most of them have names that are not easy to insert in a Latin [i:2n9ijrqm]via [/i:2n9ijrqm]name, and there are around 15 persons in the group and only 8 [i:2n9ijrqm]viae[/i:2n9ijrqm].
I suggest another option: to honor our RL countries (at this moment), and have [i:2n9ijrqm]Via Galliae [/i:2n9ijrqm](France), [i:2n9ijrqm]Via Lusitaniae [/i:2n9ijrqm](Portugal), [i:2n9ijrqm]Via Germaniae [/i:2n9ijrqm](Germany), [i:2n9ijrqm]Via Britanniae [/i:2n9ijrqm](Great Britain) or [i:2n9ijrqm]Regni Uniti [/i:2n9ijrqm](United Kingdom), Via [i:2n9ijrqm]Americae [/i:2n9ijrqm](America) or [i:2n9ijrqm]Civitates Foederatae Americae[/i:2n9ijrqm] (United States of America), Via [i:2n9ijrqm]Canadense [/i:2n9ijrqm](Canada), [i:2n9ijrqm]via Iaponiae[/i:2n9ijrqm] (Japan)... This has also a major problem: we have only eight [i:2n9ijrqm]viae[/i:2n9ijrqm], and as I've checked the list of RL countries in the forum, not every person in the Planning Group has disclosed its country (and don't have to do), so, it's likely we have more than eight countries. In fact, the above list of countries comes from the forum identities, and don't match with the SPC list.
And concerning [i:2n9ijrqm]vici[/i:2n9ijrqm], we have only three. In ancient Rome, the vici have the names of the temples near them (so will have again [i:2n9ijrqm]vicus Dianae[/i:2n9ijrqm] or [i:2n9ijrqm]vicus Minervae[/i:2n9ijrqm], or the names of some offices. We can honor builders ([i:2n9ijrqm]vicus edificatorii[/i:2n9ijrqm]), scripters ([i:2n9ijrqm]vicus scriptorii[/i:2n9ijrqm]) and designer ([i:2n9ijrqm]vicus adumbratorii[/i:2n9ijrqm]).
[b:2n9ijrqm][u:2n9ijrqm]Forum, [i:2n9ijrqm]thermae[/i:2n9ijrqm], theatre...[/u:2n9ijrqm][/b:2n9ijrqm]
As we have only one of each, we don need to add a second name to the forum, the thermae or the theatre (by the way, in the ancient sense, we have a theatre, not an amphiteatre), but we can, if we want.
[b:2n9ijrqm][u:2n9ijrqm]Sources[/u:2n9ijrqm][/b:2n9ijrqm]
This ideas owe a lot to Bill Thayer's [i:2n9ijrqm]Lacus Curtius [/i:2n9ijrqm]pages on ancient Rome, and, specially, to [i:2n9ijrqm]A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome[/i:2n9ijrqm], a 1929 book by Samuel Ball Platner, reproduced on [i:2n9ijrqm]Lacus Curtius[/i:2n9ijrqm]. The internet address is http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/G ... home*.html.
It doesn't work as a link, I suspect that due to the asterisk signs.
The Vatican has a foundation on Latin, and has a page with the [i:2n9ijrqm][url=http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/insti ... 1:2n9ijrqm]Lexicon recentis latinitatis[/url:2n9ijrqm][/i:2n9ijrqm], a small Italian-Latin dictionary, with words as firefighter ([i:2n9ijrqm]siphonarius[/i:2n9ijrqm]), bar ([i:2n9ijrqm]thermopolium[/i:2n9ijrqm]) or jeep ( [i:2n9ijrqm]autocinētum locis iniquis aptum[/i:2n9ijrqm]).
[i:2n9ijrqm][url=http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_prima:2n9ijrqm]Vicipaedia·Latina[/url:2n9ijrqm][/i:2n9ijrqm]. Yes, Wikipedia has a Latin version, very short, but useful to find the Latin name of a country or a city.
[i:2n9ijrqm][url=http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0300101864/:2n9ijrqm]Daily life in ancient Rome[/url:2n9ijrqm][/i:2n9ijrqm], by Jerôme Carcopino. A great book (but a bit old, first published in 1939) about life in Rome.