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These included the settlement on the declivity of the Cermalus with the "street of the Tuscans" a name in which there may have been preserved a reminiscence of the commercial intercourse between the Caerites and Romans already perhaps carried on with vigour in the Palatine city and the settlement on the Velia; both of which subsequently along with the stronghold-hill itself constituted one region in the Servian city.

These included the settlement on the declivity of the Cermalus with the "street of the Tuscans" a name in which there may have been preserved a reminiscence of the commercial intercourse between the Caerites and Romans already perhaps carried on with vigour in the Palatine city and the settlement on the Velia; both of which subsequently along with the stronghold-hill itself constituted one region in the Servian city.

The local name of the Roman stronghold-hill was -mons Tarpeius-. The enactment -ne quis patricius in arce aut capitolio habitaret-probably prohibited only the conversion of the ground into private property, not the construction of dwelling-houses. Comp. Becker, Top. p. 386.

The local name of the Roman stronghold-hill was -mons Tarpeius-. The enactment -ne quis patricius in arce aut capitolio habitaret-probably prohibited only the conversion of the ground into private property, not the construction of dwelling-houses. Comp. Becker, Top. p. 386.