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  • Thence I returned by the arch of Constantine, and the Coliseum, which frowned on me in black masses through the soft but deepening twilight, through the street now called the Suburra, but formerly the Via

    The Diary of an Ennuyée 1827

  • Coelimontana, particularly in the Suburra that bordered the town walls, lying in the Carinae, -- the valley between the Coelian and

    Satyricon 2007

  • The people imitated the nobles, and, as fast as the dancers were expelled, others from the highest and lowest ranks of society took their places, and there soon came to be no distinction, in this matter, between the noblest names of the patricians and the vilest rabble from the Suburra.

    Satyricon 2007

  • No matter! you will have to go and turn the mill-stone in the Suburra, and gather grapes on the hills of

    Salammbo 2003

  • An immigrant from south of Carthage, if you closed your eyes he could have been Suburra-born.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • He passed along the Agiletium, a street running just north of the most corrupt street of the city, and therefore of the world, the street called Suburra.

    The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

  • He first inhabited a small house in the Suburra [71], but after his advancement to the pontificate, he occupied a palace belonging to the state in the Via Sacra.

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • He first inhabited a small house in the Suburra [71], but after his advancement to the pontificate, he occupied a palace belonging to the state in the Via Sacra.

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • [71] The Suburra lay between the Celian and Esquiline hills.

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • [212] Probably in the Suburra, where Martial informs us that torturing scourges were sold:

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

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