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Title: Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Smith, William, Sir, 1813-1893
Subjects: Classical geography
Publisher: London : Walton & Maberly
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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hill is meant; andthe same historian, in describing Romulus consecrat-ing the spolia opima to Jupiter Feretrius a couple ofcenturies before the Capitoline temple was founded,says, in Capitolium escendit (i. 10). The Greekwriters use rh KatnrdiMov in the same man-ner: Pu>/xv\os fjifv rh ITaAaTior (faTtxw — TctTioy5e rb Ka-KnuXLov. (Dionys. ii. 50.) Hence we de-duce as a first general rule that the term Capitoliumis sometimes used of the whole liill. Secondly, it may be shown that the whole hill,when characterised generally as the Roman citadel,was also called Arx: Atque ut ita nninita arx cir-cuinjecfu arduo et quasi circumciso saxo nitcretnr, utetiain in ilia tempestate horribili Gallic! adventns in-columis atque intacta permanscrit. (Cic. Rep. ii. 6.) Sp. Tarpeius Romanae praeerat arci. (Liv. i. 11.)But there is no need to multiply examples on thi,shead, which is plain enough. But, thinlly, wc must observe that though theterms Capitolium and Arx are thus used generally 762 ROMA.
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PLAN OF THE CAPITOLINE HILL. A. Tomple of Jupiter Capitolinus. B. Temple of Juno Moneta. 1. Forum Trajani. 2. Sepulcrum Kibuli. 3. Capitoline Museum. 4. S.Pielro in Carcere..>. Palazzo Senatorio. 6. Piilazzo de Conscrvalori. 7. Arcus Severi. 8. S. Nicola de Funari. 9. Tor de Specchi. 10. S. Andrea in Finds. 11. Palaxxo Cafarelli. to signify the whole hill, they are nevertheless fre-quently employed in a stricter sense to denote re-spectively one of its summits, or rather, the templeof Jupiter Capitolinus and the opposite summit; andin this manner they are often found meutioned astwo separate localities opposed to one another: Dearcs capta Capitolioque occupato — nuntii veniunt.(Liv. iii. 18.) • Est autem etiam aedes VejovisRuniae inter arcem et Capitolium. (Gell. N. A. v. 12. Monte Cnprino. 1:1. S. Maria della Consokizione. 14. Piazza Montanara. \h. Theatrum Marcelli. 16. .S. Omobuono. 17. .S. Maria in Porticu. 18. .S. Salvatore in Statera.a a. Iia di Macfl de Corvi.b h. Siilit

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