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MURUS TERREUS—MUTATORIUM CAES ARIS 355
(ASRSP 1889, 199-213 ; De Rossi, Piante 13), and even in 1527 (Fulvius,
antiq. 1. ii. f. 21 ter, G.i.).
Many other portions of the wall are preserved, but are too insignificant
to deserve separate mention, with the exception of an arch on the slope
of the Quirinal, in the modern Palazzo Antonelli,1 which is only 1.05 metres
in span, and therefore not a city gate (TF 120, who attributes it to 87 b.c.).
For the remains on the Capitol, see Arx.
We cannot admit either that the Palatine was still a separate com-
munity when the wall of blocks 2 feet high was built on its north-west side
or that this wall was part of a larger enceinte ; and we must therefore
suppose that it continued to be separately fortified as late as the fourth
century b.c. as an additional internal citadel or fort (CR 1902, 336 ;
YW 1907, 22).
For the remains of the wall of the fourth century b.c., see Ann. d. Inst.
1871, 40-85; Jord. i. I. 201-295; BC 1876, 24-38, 121-134, 165-210;
1888, 12-22; 1912, 67-81 ; NS 1884, 223 ; 1910, 495-513 (Boni, whose
views as to relative dates, expressed at the end of the article, do not
seem to be acceptable); Mon. L. xv. 746-753 ; Klio 1911, 83-123;
TF 111-124 ; RE i. A. i. 1026.
Murus Terreus : an earthwork known only from one obscure passage in
Varro (LL v. 48 : eidem regioni adtributa Subura quod sub muro terreo
Carinarum), in whose time it appears to have been still preserved in part.
As the Carinae (q.v.) was on the western end of the Oppius, and the
Subura (q.v.) was between the Oppius and Viminal, this work probably
ran round the north-west edge of the Oppius and extended as far east
as the present church of S. Pietro in Vincoli. It is also probable that the
work was on the summit of the hill, or just a little way down on the slope,
and that it belonged to the system of fortification of the Oppius at that
early period when such earth walls were still in use and the settlements
on this and the adjacent hills were independent of each other (Pinza,
BC 1898, 93 ; 1912, 86-87 i Mon. L. xv. 783-785, and pl. xxv. ; HJ 263).
It may also have been incorporated in part in the fortification of the
Septimontium (q.v.).
The murus terreus has also been placed between the Oppius and the
Capitolium along the brook Spinon (Schneider, Mitt. 1895, 167-178),
between the Carinae and the Velia (Pais, Storia di Roma i. I. 631), on the
hill itself dividing the Oppius and Carinae (Richter 38 ; cf. Mel. 1908,
274-276), but none of these theories is satisfactory.
Mutatorium Caesaris : an imperial property in Region I (Not. Cur.),
represented on a fragment (3) of the Marble Plan, and situated without
much doubt on the east side of the via Appia, opposite the baths of
Caracalla (Jord. ii. 107-108, 512). Different explanations of this name
1 The statement in Gnomon, i. 300, that a piece of the Servian wall had been found
in the Via Mazzarino rests on a misconception of the position of this arch and of the line
taken by the wall, and is, further, incorrect, as the blocks were not in situ.
(ASRSP 1889, 199-213 ; De Rossi, Piante 13), and even in 1527 (Fulvius,
antiq. 1. ii. f. 21 ter, G.i.).
Many other portions of the wall are preserved, but are too insignificant
to deserve separate mention, with the exception of an arch on the slope
of the Quirinal, in the modern Palazzo Antonelli,1 which is only 1.05 metres
in span, and therefore not a city gate (TF 120, who attributes it to 87 b.c.).
For the remains on the Capitol, see Arx.
We cannot admit either that the Palatine was still a separate com-
munity when the wall of blocks 2 feet high was built on its north-west side
or that this wall was part of a larger enceinte ; and we must therefore
suppose that it continued to be separately fortified as late as the fourth
century b.c. as an additional internal citadel or fort (CR 1902, 336 ;
YW 1907, 22).
For the remains of the wall of the fourth century b.c., see Ann. d. Inst.
1871, 40-85; Jord. i. I. 201-295; BC 1876, 24-38, 121-134, 165-210;
1888, 12-22; 1912, 67-81 ; NS 1884, 223 ; 1910, 495-513 (Boni, whose
views as to relative dates, expressed at the end of the article, do not
seem to be acceptable); Mon. L. xv. 746-753 ; Klio 1911, 83-123;
TF 111-124 ; RE i. A. i. 1026.
Murus Terreus : an earthwork known only from one obscure passage in
Varro (LL v. 48 : eidem regioni adtributa Subura quod sub muro terreo
Carinarum), in whose time it appears to have been still preserved in part.
As the Carinae (q.v.) was on the western end of the Oppius, and the
Subura (q.v.) was between the Oppius and Viminal, this work probably
ran round the north-west edge of the Oppius and extended as far east
as the present church of S. Pietro in Vincoli. It is also probable that the
work was on the summit of the hill, or just a little way down on the slope,
and that it belonged to the system of fortification of the Oppius at that
early period when such earth walls were still in use and the settlements
on this and the adjacent hills were independent of each other (Pinza,
BC 1898, 93 ; 1912, 86-87 i Mon. L. xv. 783-785, and pl. xxv. ; HJ 263).
It may also have been incorporated in part in the fortification of the
Septimontium (q.v.).
The murus terreus has also been placed between the Oppius and the
Capitolium along the brook Spinon (Schneider, Mitt. 1895, 167-178),
between the Carinae and the Velia (Pais, Storia di Roma i. I. 631), on the
hill itself dividing the Oppius and Carinae (Richter 38 ; cf. Mel. 1908,
274-276), but none of these theories is satisfactory.
Mutatorium Caesaris : an imperial property in Region I (Not. Cur.),
represented on a fragment (3) of the Marble Plan, and situated without
much doubt on the east side of the via Appia, opposite the baths of
Caracalla (Jord. ii. 107-108, 512). Different explanations of this name
1 The statement in Gnomon, i. 300, that a piece of the Servian wall had been found
in the Via Mazzarino rests on a misconception of the position of this arch and of the line
taken by the wall, and is, further, incorrect, as the blocks were not in situ.