PORTA QUERQUETULANA
a gate-probably in the Servian wall-which
derived its name from a neighbouring oak grove (Plin.
NH xvi. 37;
Fest. 260,261: Querquetularia;
BC 1905, 201). For the Querquetulanae
virae (nymphs presiding over this grove), see
Rosch. iv. 9; BM.
Rep.
i. 569, 4211-4.
1 According to tradition the Caelian was once called mons
Querquetulanus, and whether this be true or false, the porta Querquetulana was undoubtedly on this hill, very likely between the porta
Capena and the porta Caelimontana, where an ancient road issued from
the city, just south of the present S. Stefano Rotondo (Jord. i. I. 226;
HJ 221).