place
Capitolium
the Capitol
also: Capitoline, Capitoline Hill
The chief hill of Rome, site of the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, where the consuls take vows on the Kalends of January.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 14.14 §2 the sitting on the Capitol
After killing Caesar the conspirators withdrew to the Capitol and held council there; Cicero notes that he had disapproved of this passive occupation rather than decisive action.
- Ad M. Brutum 1.3 §2 escorted up to the Capitol
The Capitoline Hill, seat of the great temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, was the symbolic religious heart of Rome; a triumphal procession from the Forum to the Capitol was Rome's highest civic honour.
- Second Philippic §16 the Capitoline slope
The clivus Capitolinus, the road leading up to the Capitoline Hill, where Roman knights stood guard during the Senate's session against Catiline in 63 BC.