CHAP. XVII. Of Suburra: the house of Caesar and Lalia; and the street Patricius.
SVburra is a street of all other most frequented: it beginneth at the Forum Romanum, and go∣eth on forward directly by the Forum Nervae, up to the hanging or rising of the hill called Cli∣vus Suburranus, whereof wee have written before in this booke; and it endeth where the way Praenestina beginneth. Called it was Suburra, either for that it sustained and bare up the Cari∣nae and the wall under it: or because it lay under the old citie; or as Varro thinketh, of the burrough or street Succusanus. In this street Suburra, was the house of Caesar, so long as he contented himselfe with a mean estate.
In it were sometimes certaine stewes and brothell-houses, as Martial writeth.
The street Patritius windeth crooked from the hill Viminalis, and endeth at the bains of Diocletian. Of it, more hath been said in the former booke.
The house of Laelia likewise was in the same street, as Martial witnesseth.