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Septimontium: according to Varro the name of the city before it was called Rome (LL V.41: ubi nunc est Roma erat olim Septimontium nominatum ab tot montibus quos postea urbs muris comprehendit; cf. Fest. 321: Sacrani appellati sunt Reate orti qui ex Septimontio Ligures Siculosque exegerunt; nam vere sacro nati erant), a statement that seems to be corroborated by Lydus (de mens. IV.155: ἐν ταύτῃ καὶ ἡ λεγομένη παρ’ αὐτῶν Σεπτιμούνδιος ἑορτὴ ἐπιτελεῖτο, τούτεστιν ἡ περίοδος τῆς πόλεως, ὅτι ἐπὶ ἑπτὰ λόφους τὰ τείχη τῆς Ῥώμης ἐκτέταται. ὀνόματα δὲ τοῦτων· Παλάτιον Ἐσκύλιον Ταρπῆϊον Ἀβεντῖνον Τιβούρτιον Πραινέστιον Βιμινάλιον παρὰ δὲ τοῖς ἀρχαίοις ἑτέρως οὑτῶς· Ἀβεντῖνος Καίλιος Ἑσκύλιος Καπιτωλῖνος Βελινήσιος Κυρινάλιος Παλατῖνος).
p472 Septimontium was also the name of a festival, celebrated on 11th December, and consisting in part of a lustral procession round the Palatine and Esquiline, which is mentioned in the calendars and several times in literature, especially in the following passages:— Varro, LL VI.24: dies Septimontium nominatus ab his septem montibus in quis sita urbs est feriae non populi sed montanorum modo ut Paganalia qui sunt alicuius pagi; Fest. 348: Septimontio ut ait Antistius Labeo hisce montibus feriae: Palatio cui sacrificium quod fit Palatuar dicitur; Veliae (villae, cod.) cui item sacrificium; Fagutali (faguali, cod.), Suburae, Cermalo, Oppio, Caelio monti, Cispio (cis itum, cod.) monti; 340 a much mutilated passage; 341: Septimontium appellabant diem festum quod in septem locis faciebant sacrificium: Palatio, Velia, Fagutali,1 Subura, Cermalo, Caelio, Oppio et Cispio; Plut. q. Rom. 69: τὸ δὲ σεπτομούντιον ἄγουσιν ἐπὶ τῷ τὸν ἕβδομον λόφον τῇ πόλει προσκατανεμηθῆναι καὶ τὴν Ῥώμην ἑπτάλοφον γενέσθαι. One of these eight names must obviously be omitted, and the choice has often fallen on Subura (q.v.), which is in no sense a 'mons'; but cf. Regiones Quattuor, Su(c)cusa.
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