VICUS LONGUS
the street that traversed the valley between the Quirinal
and the Viminal and joined the
ALTA SEMITA (q.v.) inside the porta
Collina, very near where the via Quintino Sella runs into the via Venti
Settembre. It is mentioned first by Livy (x. 23. 6) in connection with the
dedication of an altar to Pudicitia Plebeia (Fest. 237) in the year 296 B.C.
In this street were also shrines to Febris (Val.
Max. ii. 5. 6) and
FORTUNA
(Plut. de Fort. Rom. IO:
ἐν δὲ τῷ μακπῷ στενωπῷ Τύχης βωμὸς Εὐέλπιδος),
and it occurs on two inscriptions of the empire (
CIL vi. 9736, o0023) and
in LP (xlvi. vit. Innoc. I, 6). The pavement of this street has been found
on a line that crosses the via Nazionale at an angle of twenty degrees near
the Banca d'Italia, at various points between the bank and the baths of
Diocletian, a distance of one kilometre. The valley through which it
ran has been artificially filled up (
BC 1886, 186). A considerable part
of the north-east section was destroyed by the erection of these baths
(
RhM 1894, 382-384; HJ 417, 428;
Gilb. iii. 368. See also S. Agata
dei Goti by Hulsen and others
(Rome 1924), 4).
