FORUM ESQUILINUM
an open area on the Esquiline, known from three
inscriptions (C1L vi. 2223, 9179, 9180), one of which was found near
the arch of Gallienus. This forum may perhaps be identified with
that mentioned in two other inscriptions (
CIL vi. 1662, 31888) which
record its restoration by Fl. Eurycles Epitynchianus, praef. urbi in
450 A.D. It is probably referred to in Appian (
BC i. 58), where the
emended text reads
περὶ τὴν Αἰσκύλειον ἀγοράν. This was the scene
of the conflict between Sulla and Marius in 88 B.C., and the description
indicates a rather large area inside the Servian wall. ''he forum
was therefore probably inside the porta Esquilina, on the north-east
part of the Oppius, near the church of S. Martino ai Monti (HJ 317;
DE iii. 203;
RE vi. 684; cf.
BC 1914, 133).