in Ancient Geography, one of the seven hills of Rome, which Varro will have to be two, viz. Cifpias and Oppius; alfo Mons Esquilius, foftened from Exquilius; and this again from Excebusinus, the watch or guard Romulus kept here, from a jealously he entertained of his colleague Titus Tatius. On the eafh fide it reached the city walls; on the fourth, the Via Lavicana; on the weft, the wide valley between Mount Coelius and the Palatine; on the north, the Mons Viminalis; on the eafh fide was the Porta Esquilina. This hill by fome of the ancients was called Suburranus, from the street Suburra to the north of it: by the poets, Esquilus.