PALLACINAE
a name which occurs in classical literature only in Cicero
and his scholia, in connection with balnea and vicus (pro Rose. Amer. 18:
occiditur ad balneas Pallacinas de cena rediens Sex. Roscius; ib. 132:
in vico Pallacinae, and schol. Gronov. ad loc., Or. p. 436:
locus ubi cenaverat
Sex. Roscius). Whether there was originally a district-Pallacinae-
or not, is probable but not certain (cf., however, Rostowzew, Sylloge 500),
and the testimony of early Christian literature is in favour of such a
hypothesis (LP vit. Marci 3:
hic fecit basilicam iuxta Pallacinis in
336 (HCh 308) ; Inscr. Chr. i. p. 62:
Antius lector de Pallacine; cf. the
church and cloister of S. Lorenzo in Pallacinis, LP xcvii. 71 ; xcviii. 76;
cvi. 23; HCh 291-292; see also HJ 556;
BC 1914, 98-99; S. Andrea
de Pallacina, Arm. 463; HCh 189-190). In the eighth century a porticus
Pallacinis is mentioned (LP xcvii. (Hadr. I.) 94), of which possible fragments
were found in the Via degli Astalli (Arm. 459;
BC 1908, 280-282). In
any case the district was near the north-east end of the circus Flaminius,
and the vicus may have coincided in general with the Via di S. Marco
(KH iv.).
