COELIUS MONT, one of the seven hills of Rome; so called from Cœles, a Tuscan captain, who came to the assistance of Romulus against the Sabines, (Dionysius Halicarnassensis). Called also Querculanus, or Quercetulanus, from the oaks growing on it; and Augustus, by Tiberius (Tacitus, Suetonius). To the east it had the city walls, on the south the Cœliulus, to the west the Palatine, and on the north the Esquiline.
COELIUS MONT
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