Septimontium
The Septimontium was a proto-
The etymology from septem ("seven") has been doubted; the festival may instead take its name from saept-, "divided," in the sense of "partitioned off, palisaded."[5] The montes include two divisions of the Palatine Hill and three of the Esquiline Hill, among the traditional "seven hills of Rome".[6]
Plutarch's notice of this festival is obscure, and confuses the nature of the Septimontium as represented by inscriptions and Festus with the proverbial seven hills of Rome. At this time, he notes, Romans refrained from operating horse-drawn vehicles.[7]
Further reading
- L.A. Holland, "Septimontium or saeptimontium?" TAPA 84 (1953) 16–34.
References
- ^ Classical Philology. University of Chicago Press. 1906. pp. 71–.
- Varro, De lingua latina 6.24.
- Robert E.A. Palmer, The Archaic Community of the Romans (Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 122–123.
- ISBN 978-1-107-03035-0.
- ^ Kurt A. Raaflaub, "Between Myth and History: Rome's Rise from Village to Empire (the Eighth Century to 264)," in A Companion to the Roman Republic (Blackwell, 2010), p. 136.
- ^ Timothy Venning, A Chronology of the Roman Empire (Continuum, 2011), p. 27.
- ^ Plutarch, Roman Questions 69.
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