AD PIRUM
a street on the Quirinal, where Martial lived at one time (
Mart.
i. 117. 6), and from which the trees in the campus Agrippae could be
seen (ib. i. 108. 3). It was probably on the western slope of the hill
(
RhM 1894, 397). For the use of the name in 1199: Jord. i. I. 72;
ii. 668; and on the contrary, Hiilsen in
Mitt. 1891, 121, n. 3).