CARINAE
the western end of the southern spur of the
Esquiline hill,
including the slope to the valley of the Subura on the
north and that
of the Colosseum on the south, and corresponding to the
district between
the present church of S. Pietro in Vincoli and the Via del
Colosseo (
Liv.
xxvi. 10; Varro,
LL v. 47; Hor.
Ep. i. 7.48;
Dionys. i. 68.
1;
iii. 22.8;
RE iii. 1590-91 ; Mon.
L. xv. 787). This was the Fagutal
of earlier times,
but this name seems to have been displaced by Carinae,
which Servius
says (ad
Aen. viii. 361) was derived from certain
buildings erected near
the temple of Tellus that resembled the keels of ships. It
was crossed by
the murus terreus (Varro,
LL v. 48), which was probably
a remnant of
pre-Servian fortification. The most conspicuous
monument on the
Carinae was the temple of
TELLUS (q.v.), but during the
republic many
prominent Romans dwelt here and Florus (ii. 18. 4) calls
it
celeberrima
pars urbis.
