CHAP. IX. The sepulchre of Numa, and Cacilius the Poet. The Tribunall of Aurelius, the Ianiculum, and the hort-yards of Marcellus.
THat the sepulchre of king Numa was under the hill Ianiculus, a chist of his, with his bookes long time after digged up there, doe sufficiently proove. See Livie, Solinus, and others.
The Tribunall Aurelia, & the Arsenall was on that side of the Tyber, as appeareth by those authors.
The hill Ianiculus tooke the name of Ianus who there dwelt, and therein was afterwards buried. Hee also built a towne or citie there, as they say, so called. This Ianiculus was also called Antipolis, as Rome Saturnia.
Commonly also it is received, that Caecilius the poet was under the same hill Ianiculus buried. Martiall the poet, as himselfe witnesseth in his first book, had most pleasant and delectable hort-yards in the same Ianiculus.