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CHAP. XXIII. The path way or causey called Alta; the house of Sabinus: the street and statue of Mamurrus: the court and gardens of Salust, and the field or plaine Sceleratus.
THe high causey reaching from the bathes of Constantine to the gate Viminalis along the side of Quirinalis, was paved with four esquare stone.
Vpon that causey, at a place called the Pomgranat, Flavius Sabinus had an house, wherein by report Domitian was borne.
It is avouched that in old time ther was a street of Mamurrus: and that his statue there stood, where now is S. Susans church.
Not far from that church, was the court of Salust, and his most neat and fine hortyards, where the field called Sceleratus lay, and reached neere the gate Collina. Of those hort-yards, as also of the hamlet Tiburtina, there yet continue some markes and remnants in the bottome of the valley, be∣tweene the very hill and the way which bringeth to the gate Salaria. On that little hill is seene the very house of Salust, which the people there inhabiting call Salustrium. Of this matter, see more in Cicero and others.
Beyond the hort-yards of Salust, neere the gate Collina, there is an high place like a mount: where in times past the vestal votarie Nuns, such as were condemned for incontinencie and incest, were bu∣ried quicke; and thereupon all the plaine about it was called Sceleratus, together with the way that leadeth thereto.