Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, SICILIA

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apparently an apartment in the imperial palace on the Palatine (Hist. Aug. Pert. II: ingressique porticus Palati usque ad locum qui appellatur Sicilia et Iovis cenatio). Sicilia has sometimes been identified with the porticus, and Iovis cenatio, which would naturally be applied to a dining room, with the so-called triclinium of the DOMUS FLAVIA (q.v.), but these identifications are purely arbitrary.¹ It is not even clear whether both names belong to one apartment or to different rooms in the same part of the palace (HJ 89; BC 1914, 99-110).

1 Hilsen has suggested that its name may be derived from its triangular shape.

A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Samuel Ball Platner. Thomas Ashby. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1929.

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