Vicus Jugarius

The Vicus Jugarius (

Latin: Vicus Iugarius), or the Street of the Yoke-Makers, was an ancient street leading into the Roman Forum.^[1] The Vicus Jugarius was very old—perhaps even older than Rome itself. The Latin

word jugarius can mean either "yoke" or "ridge".

The Vicus Jugarius entered the Forum from the southwest, along the shoulder of the

Tiber River

. Its ancient name may actually have originally signified a “high-road’, rather than the later sense of “yoke”; something like "the Road along the [Capitoline] Ridge".

A spot on the road known as the Equimaelium perhaps recorded the leveling of the home of Spurius Maelius.^[2]^[3]

Etymology

Latin words associated with jugarius include jugalis ("yoked together") and jugo ("to marry" or "join"). Some words deriving from this Latin root are (in English): "yoke", "join", "juncture", "conjugal" and even "yoga" (from the Sanskrit root yuj, meaning "to yoke" or "to unite"). Juga, or Jugalis, is an epithet of the goddess Juno in her aspect as marriage goddess (she was believed to join a couple in matrimony). As Juno Juga—Juno of the Yoke of Holy Matrimony—she had an altar on the Vicus Jugarius (exact location unknown). Although it was believed by the ancients that this gave its name to the street, in reality, it was probably the other way around.

References

^ Claridge, Amanda (2nd edition, 2010), Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide, Oxford University Press, pg 84.
^ Robert Burn (1876). Rome and the Campagna: An Historical and Topographical Description of the Site, Buildings, and Neighbourhood of Ancient Rome. Deighton, Bell. pp. 277–.
^ Marcus Tullius Cicero (1852). The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Orations for his house, Plancius, Sextius, Cœlius, Milo, Ligarius, etc. H.G. Bohn. pp. 46–.

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[1] Claridge, Amanda (2nd edition, 2010), Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide, Oxford University Press, pg 84.

[Burn1876-2] Robert Burn (1876). Rome and the Campagna: An Historical and Topographical Description of the Site, Buildings, and Neighbourhood of Ancient Rome. Deighton, Bell. pp. 277–.

[Cicero1852-3] Marcus Tullius Cicero (1852). The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Orations for his house, Plancius, Sextius, Cœlius, Milo, Ligarius, etc. H.G. Bohn. pp. 46–.

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Streets	Milliarium Aureum Clivus Capitolinus Via Sacra Vicus Jugarius Vicus Tuscus
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List of monuments of the Roman Forum

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