EQUIMELIUM, in Antiquity, a place in Rome where stood the house of Spurius Maelius, who, by largesses corrupting the people, affected the supreme power. Refusing to appear before the dictator Cincinnatus, he was slain by Servilius Ahala, master of the horse; his house was razed to the ground, and the spot on which it stood was called Area Equimelii.—Livy, iv. 13-16.