PORTA STERCORARIA
a gate on the clivus Capitolinus, opening into an
alley (angiportus). It was opened once a year, on 15th June, in order
that the stercus-ashes, rubbish, etc.-from the temple of Vesta might
be removed and thrown into the Tiber (Fest. 344; cf. ib. 258; Varro,
LL vi. 32; Ov.
Fast. vi. 713; Fast. ap. CIL i. p. 319, and
NS 1921, 98).
It was probably about halfway up the clivus, but there is no clue to its
exact location (
Jord. i. 2. 64;
Gilb. ii. 316; Richter 117).