Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, CICONIAE NIXAE

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CICONIAE NIXAE

mentioned only in the Regionary Catalogue in Region IX in just this form, but doubtless referred to as ad Nixas in the calendar of Philocalus (a. 354 ad id. Oct.; CIL i 2. p. 332), and as de Ciconiis on an inscription (CIL vi. 1785=31931). It designated a certain district, probably an open square, on the bank of the Tiber, in which there was a statue, or perhaps a relief on one of the surrounding buildings, of two or more storks with crossed bills. It was probably a little south of the Mausoleum Augusti, near the present Piazza Nicosia, and seems to have been a landing-place for wine (CP 1908, 70-71).

A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Samuel Ball Platner. Thomas Ashby. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1929.

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