2) City of the Seven Hills (The). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Rome, built on seven hills (Urbs septacollis). The hills are the Aventine, Caelian, Capit line, Esquiline, Pal tine, Quir nal, and Viminal. 1 The AVENTINE HILL was...

3) Laocoon [La-ok'-o-on]. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...these three in their death agony, now in the Vatican, was discovered in 1506, on the Esquiline Hill (Rome). It is a single block of marble, and was the work of Agesander...

4) d. The Regal Period. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...Rome's first residents were herdsmen living in seasonal settlements on Rome's various hills (Palatine, Esquiline, Quirinal) and using the low-lying areas for burials...

5) Rome, city, Italy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of the Campagna. The seven hills of the ancient city are the Palatine, roughly in the center, with the Capitoline to the northwest and the Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline,...

6) 25. The Burden of Itys. Wilde, Oscar. 1881. Poems
...than the odorous Flame-jewelled censers the young deacons swing, When the grey priest unlocks the curtained shrine, 35 And makes God s body from the common fruit...