CHAP. IX. Of Esquiliae.
THe mount Esquiliae, as well by Vairo as others, is devided into many parts, and each part ther∣of tooke name of those captaines who in times past before the cittie of Rome was built, there inhabited. For one was called Cispius, another Oppius, and a third, Septius. But hereof Vairo writeth at large. The posteritie following chaunged those names, as we shall hereafter heare. Some thinke that Esquiliae tooke the name of Excubiae, i. watch and ward. For when Romulus had no very great trust in Tatius, he used to have a standing watch by night, for feare hee should bee secretly for∣laied and killed, or els turned out of his kingdome. Others suppose it was so named of foulers, who there used to cast forth chasse and such refuse of light corne, to beguile and catch the poore birds.
The side of the hill toward the broad way Labicana, which now lieth between the churches of the fortie martyrs, of S. Clement, S. Peter in Vinculis, and S. Martin, was called by the name of Carinae, as Livie seemeth to testifie. From that part therefore, because it was first inhabited, we shall doe well to begin our treatise.