A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies . lled the Palatine, ^^^^stood isolated. It was almost square, with its cornersturned to the four points of the compass, and almost di-rectly opposite the river-ford. Back of it and away fromthe river, standing side by side, were other hills, called,respectively, the Caehan, the Esquiline, the Viminaland the Quirinal. On their eastern side they fell awayto the plain. South of it, overlooking the river, was theAventine hill; north of it the Capitoline, isolated andsteep. Across the river, lying over against the ford, wasthe ridge ca
A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies . lled the Palatine, ^^^^stood isolated. It was almost square, with its cornersturned to the four points of the compass, and almost di-rectly opposite the river-ford. Back of it and away fromthe river, standing side by side, were other hills, called,respectively, the Caehan, the Esquiline, the Viminaland the Quirinal. On their eastern side they fell awayto the plain. South of it, overlooking the river, was theAventine hill; north of it the Capitoline, isolated andsteep. Across the river, lying over against the ford, wasthe ridge called the Janiculum. In the narrow ravinesand valleys between these hills were the roads and openspaces which came to be famous in history. Thus, be-tween the Aventine and the Caehan ran the Appian Way; 252 The Making of Rome (2) TheUnion ofPeoples. the Circus Maximus (where the pubhc games were held)lay between the Aventine and the Palatine; the Forum(the market and place of citizen-assembly) to the northof the Palatine; where the Tiber makes a great bend, the. low stretch between it and the Capitoline, the CampusMartins (the Field of Mars, where the army exercised).308. Such a site naturally gathered people to it fromall sides. Traders were attracted by the commercial op-portunities. Outlaws and rovers found in its fortress asafe hiding-place. Peasants from the surrounding countrymade its hills their refuge, both from the malaria of the
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