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Sacra Via
the Sacra Via
also: Sacra via, the Sacred Way
The 'Sacred Way', the principal processional street of Rome running through the Forum up toward the Palatine. Clodius's gang ambushed Cicero as he came down it in November 57 BC (Att. 4.3.2).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 4.3 §2 when I was coming down the Sacra Via
The Sacred Way, Rome's main ceremonial street running through the Forum toward the Palatine. Clodius's men ambushed Cicero on it; he took refuge in the entrance-hall of one Tettius Damio.