PAGUS MONTANUS
a name occurring in one inscription (CIL i². 591=vi.
3823=31577) on a travertine cippus that was found in situ behind the
tribune of the church of S. Vito on the Esquiline. This inscription
(a fragment of a senatus consultum belonging to the second century B.C.)
seems to show that this part of the Esquiline, outside the Servian wall,
was then still organised as a pagus. Montanus is usually explained as
equivalent to Esquilinus (HJ 265, and references there cited). Cf. also
OPPIUS MONS.