VICUS SULPICIUS
a street on which the baths of Caracalla were said to
be situated (Hist. Aug. Elag. 17:
opera eius praeter... et lavacrum in
vico Sulpicio quod Antoninus Severi filius coeperat nulla extant; cf.
the republican inscription on a round altar, CIL i'. 1002=vi. 2221:
magistri de duobus pageis et vicei Sulpicei; cf. 32452). It must therefore
have extended along one side of the baths. On the Capitoline Base
(
CIL vi. 975) in
Region I are mentioned a vicus Sulpicius ulterior and a
vicus Sulpicius citerior, which would seem to indicate that by the fourth
century at least the street was divided. As the baths were in
Region XII,
the most probable location of the vicus Sulpicius is on their southern
side, for the most part inside
Region I. The vicus may have formed
part of the boundary between I and XII. If the vicus crossed the via
Appia, ulterior and citerior may have indicated its two sections (HJ 196,
207-209; KH ii.; for another location of this vicus, cf. LA 268).
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