Clivus

Which brought him out onto the Via Sacra at the foot of the little incline called the Clivus Sacer.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

He put up at the inn on the corner of the Clivus Orbius, quite the most expensive hostelry in town, where from its best suite of rooms he began to distribute largesse to certain needy senators.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

He put up at the inn on the corner of the Clivus Orbius, quite the most expensive hostelry in town, where from its best suite of rooms he began to distribute largesse to certain needy senators.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Agrippa gone, Octavian walked across the Palatine to the Clivus Victoriae and the domus of Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor, who was his brother-in-law.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Agrippa gone, Octavian walked across the Palatine to the Clivus Victoriae and the domus of Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor, who was his brother-in-law.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

While the priests and augurs unveiled their heads and began to walk down the slope of the Clivus Capitolinus toward the Forum, the priestlings who were professional sacrificers began to clean up.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

Pompey got up from his chair and strolled across to the open window at the back of Philippus's study, which, because of the peculiar layout of Philippus's house (perched as it was near the bend in the Clivus Victoriae) looked not onto a peristyle garden but out across the lower Forum Romanum to the cliff of the Capitol.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

The procession started to move again; across the lower Forum he walked behind his lictors, never once craning his neck to verify what awaited him at the bottom of the Clivus Argentarius.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

And off went Scaurus toward the Clivus Argentarius.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

As the knights reached the area bordering the well of the Comitia and turned left to walk between the temple of Saturn and the vaulted arcade opposite housing the Twelve Gods, they paused, stopped, swung their heads toward the Clivus Argentarius and began to cheer in an acclamation far louder than that they had accorded Sulla.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991