Subura

Quirinal, and the Argiletum farther down near the Forum, that we meet in literature what we may call the working classes; the Argiletum, for example, was famous both for its booksellers and its shoemakers, [38] and the Subura is the typical street of tradesmen.

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

And it was down here in Subura, like some great shark attended by shoals of minnows hoping for his scraps, that Caesar lurked and awaited his chance.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

On his death Pollio had bequeathed a portion of his estate, located in the warren-like residential district of the Subura on the Esquiline hill, to the emperor, grandly expressing the wish that it should be used as the site for a magnificent building to benefit the people of Rome.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

That is why I am inclined to believe the famous story that on the morning of the poll, as he left his little house in Subura to walk to the Field of Mars, he kissed his mother goodbye and announced he would either return as pontifex maximus or not return at all.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

Her dowry had bought them a large house on the Palatine, and there she sat alone most evenings while he continued with his roisterous ways in the taverns of Subura.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

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

That way, men of the Subura and Esquiline were represented as generously as men of the Palatine and Carinae.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Born and brought up in the slums of the Subura, he moved among the Head Count as one of them—he spoke their argot, he slept with their women, he kissed their smelly babies and wept when their plights moved him, as often happened.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

That way, men of the Subura and Esquiline were represented as generously as men of the Palatine and Carinae.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Caesar grew up in the squalor of the Subura, the South Central Los Angeles of ancient Rome.

The Caesar Factor 2007