PORTA QUIRINALIS
a gate in the Servian wall which is mentioned only
once (Fest. 255:
Quirinalis porta dicta sive quod ea in collem Quirinalem
itur seu quod proxime eam est Quirini sacellum). The gate was probably
just north of the temple of
QUIRINUS (q.v.), where an ancient street,
corresponding to the modern Via delle quattro Fontane, crossed the line
of the wall (Jord. i. I. 221; HJ 399, 411;
RhM 1894, 411; Hermes,
1891, 141-144;
BC 1914, 80). On this site remains of steps have been
found which may have belonged to the approach to the gate (BC 2892, 271-275, pi. xv.;
Mitt. 1893, 303-304).