The Romane historie vvritten by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole historie: and the Topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke

CHAP. I. The sundrie names of the Capitoll.

THe Capitoll was by the old Romanes called Mount Saturnius, either of a cit∣tie named Saturnia, which under the very hill was built in that place where now Rome standeth: or because Saturne in times past dwelt in that hill: or els (as some think) for that the mount it selfe had Saturne for the tutelar god and protector therof. But afterwards it was named the mount Tarpeius, of the vir∣gin Tarpeia, of whom Livie writeth. Last of all, Tarquinius Prisius going in hand to build upon that hill a temple to Iupiter, when he digged for to lay the foun∣dation, chaunced to find in the botome of the trench a mans head; wherup∣on they called it Capitolium. And the Augurs being sought unto and demaunded, VVhat the finding of that head might signifie? answered, That this castle should be the See of the empire and the head of the whole world. This hill they divide into the castle and the Capitol. The castle they built North∣ward, as a stronger and more fortified place: butthe Capitoll, toward Tyberis, a place naturally de∣fended.