COELIUS MONS, one of the seven hills of Rome, so called from Coeles, a Tuscan captain, who came to the assistance of Romulus against the Sabines, (Dionysius Halicarnassus). 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 Coelios, to the west the Palatine, and on the north the Esquiline.
COELIUS MONS
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