SPINO
a brook in Rome, mentioned only once (Cic. de nat. deor. iii. 52:
in augurum precatione Tiberinum, Spinonem, Almonem, Nodinum alia
propinquorum fluminum nomina videmus), and sometimes identified
with that which flowed down through the Subura, across the forum
and Velabrum to the Tiber, and was afterwards converted into the cloaca
Maxima (LA 230, pl. ii.; Mon.
L. xv. 275; LR 29). This identification is
arbitrary (cf.
NODINUS).