place
Mons Sacer
the Sacred Mount
also: Sacer, Sacred Mount
The hill near the Anio to which the plebs seceded (traditionally 494 BC), the site associated with the establishment of the tribunate. Cicero (Brutus 54) names it as the place M. Valerius the dictator quieted the discord.
Reading notes
- Brutus §54 the Sacred Mount
The hill beyond the Anio to which the plebs seceded (traditionally 494 BC) in protest against the patricians; the secession won the plebs the protection of the tribunate.