ring-maker's

Updated: August 13, 2026

He lived at first near the Roman Forum, above the Ring-maker's Stairs, in a house which had once been occupied by Calvus the orator. He afterwards moved to the Palatine Hill, where he resided in a small house belonging to Hortensius, no way remarkable either for size or ornament; the piazzas being but small, the pillars of Alban stone , and the rooms without any thing of marble, or fine paving.

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus - The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete