carinae
{{about|ancient Rome|the star|Eta Carinae}}
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Carinae was an area of ancient Rome. It was one of its most exclusive neighborhoods, where many of the senatorial class lived{{cite web |url=http://www.romeacrosseurope.com/?p=2514#sthash.eN6KSvgL.dpbs |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190210152628/http://www.romeacrosseurope.com/?p=2514 |archive-date=2019-02-10 |title=Subura – Rome's Original Suburb {{!}} Rome Across Europe}}.
Florus described the Carinae as the "most celebrated part of the city" (celeberrima pars urbis).2.18.4
Description
The Carinae occupied the western end of the southern spur of the Esquiline hill in Rome. The district likely incorporated the earlier Fagutal, with the northern tip of the Oppian Hill on its western side;{{cite book|author=Thomas Henry Dyer|title=Ancient Rome: With a map of ancient Rome and numerous illustrations|url=https://archive.org/details/ancientrome01dyergoog|year=1864|publisher=Walton and Maberly|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ancientrome01dyergoog/page/n117 105]–}}{{cite book|author=Filippo Coarelli|title=Rome and Environs: An Archaeological Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pu4hAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA555|date=10 May 2014|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-95780-0|pages=555–}} it extended between the Velian Hill and the Clivus Pullius. Its outlook was southwestern, across the swamps of the Palus Ceroliae toward the Aventine.
The slopes of the neighborhood near the Velia were crossed by the vicus Cyprius, where, according to a Roman tradition taken up by Livy, Tullia would have killed her father Servius Tullius, overwhelming him with her chariot pulled by horses.Livy, Ab Urbe condita libri, I, 48. The same passage from Livy indicates the existence of a temple dedicated to Diana in the Carinae.
The Murus Terreus also crossed the Carinae.Varro, De lingua latina 5.48
The district housed the residences of Marcus Tullius Cicero and Gnaeus Pompeius, whose house was later owned by Mark Antony and then became a possession of the imperial state property (Emperor Tiberius lived there for some time).
Etymologia
According to Servius, the name of the district comes from the fact that certain buildings rising close to the Temple of Tellus represented the keels (carinae in Latin) of ships.ad Aen. 8.361
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