Argiletum

The upper course of this stream, between Esquiline and Quirinal, is a densely populated quarter known as the Argiletum, and higher up as the

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

The Argiletum was a street leading down from the vegetable mart, which lay just beyond the _Porta Fluminiana_, or river gate, to the banks of the

The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832

There was much cheering and clapping, but also—to be honest—some booing, especially in the poorer parts of Subura, as we paraded along the Argiletum toward the Forum.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

A hundred scribes chosen for accuracy and legibility were comfortably housed in a building on the Argiletum near the Senate, busy these days on the poetry of Virgil and Horace.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

A hundred scribes chosen for accuracy and legibility were comfortably housed in a building on the Argiletum near the Senate, busy these days on the poetry of Virgil and Horace.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

The senators began to file into the chamber and I was just beginning to wonder if some mishap had befallen Cicero when, from the direction of the Argiletum, came the noise of drums and flutes, and then two columns of young men rounded the corner into the Forum, carrying freshly cut boughs above their heads, with children scampering excitedly all around them.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

It was a still night, without a flicker of wind to disturb the candles, and the nighttime sounds of Rome down in the valley mingled with the scent of the flowers in the warm June air—snatches of music, voices, the call of the watchmen along the Argiletum, the distant barking of the guard dogs set loose in the precincts of the Capitoline Triad.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

There was a mist rising from the Tiber, and the lamps in the shops along the Argiletum shone yellow and gauzy.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

He had a big retinue of clients to back him up as he left the house, and we picked up more along the way, especially after we stopped off halfway down the Argiletum to retrieve Sthenius from his bolt-hole.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006

We went out into the Forum, with Pompey still not saying anything, and when he turned into the Argiletum, in the direction of his house, his supporters all followed him, partly for want of anything else to do.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006