Velabrum

The name Velabrum -- from an Etruscan root, signifying water, occurring in some other Italian names such as Velletri, Velino -- still given to this locality, where a church stood in the middle ages called S. S.lvestro in Lacu, commemorates the existence of the primeval lake; while the legend of the casting ashore of Romulus and Remus on the slope of the

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

Larentia lay buried; the spot is at this day called Velabrum, because, the river frequently overflowing, they went over in ferry-boats somewhere hereabouts to the forum, the Latin word for ferrying being velatura.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

This place is now called Velabrum, because during the frequent overflowings of the river, people used there to be ferried over to the market-place; now they call ferrying _velatura_.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839

The greater and the less "Velabrum" lay between the Palatine and the

The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847

Antiquities, p. 309, etc.] [Footnote 589: The Velabrum was a street in Rome.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Tarquinius Priscus, not so much with a view to cleanliness, as by way of subterranean drains to the Velabrum, and in order to carry off the stagnant water, which remained in the lower parts, after heavy rains.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

While Livy recalls major political figures and their deeds in the Regal period, he does not elaborate on interesting projects such as the installation of drains in the Velabrum, the low valley that connects the Forum area with the Tiber.

From the Trenches: Coring Ancient Rome 2000

But the biggest funeral procession Rome had ever seen got under way from the house overlooking the Circus Maximus, wended its way down through the Velabrum to the Forum Romanum, where Lucullus-a powerful and famous speaker-gave the eulogy from the top of the rostra, standing alongside the cunning bier on which the frankincense and cinnamon Sulla sat upright behind his spicy lictor and the horrible wizened old corpse lay below in a special compartment.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

The offering made, the knights mounted their Public Horses and rode in solemn procession, century by century, through the gate in the vegetable markets, along the Velabrum into the Vicus Iugarius, and thence into the lower Forum Romanum.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Soon the news of the reconciliation was speeding into the Velabrum, into the Subura, into the manufactories beyond the swamp of the Palus Ceroliae; people came running from everywhere to see if it was true that the consuls were friends again.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993