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COLLATINA PORTA

Volume 5 · 69 words · 1797 Edition

a gate of Rome, at the Collis Hortulorum, afterwards called Pinciana, from the Pincii, a noble family. Its name Collatina is from Collatia, to the right of which was the Via Collatina, which led to that town.

COLLINA, a gate of Rome at the Collis Quirinalis, not far from the temple of Venus Erycina (Ovid); called also Salaria, because the Sabines carried their salt through it (Tacitus). Now Salaria.