place
Mons Sacer
the Sacred Mount
also: Sacred Mount
A hill across the Anio, three miles from Rome, to which the plebs seceded in 494 BC; the secession ended with the creation of the tribunate.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 2 §32 Sacred Mount
A hill across the Anio, three miles from Rome, to which the plebs withdrew in the First Secession.
- The History of Rome, Book 3 §15 Sacred Mount
The hill three miles from Rome to which the plebs had seceded in Book 2, winning the creation of the tribunate; the tribunes invoke it as the memory the patricians wished to undo.
- The History of Rome, Book 7 §40 the Sacred Mount
The hill across the Anio to which the plebs first seceded (494 BC), winning the tribunate; Corvus invokes it as the licit precedent the mutineers fall short of.
- The History of Rome, Book 9 §34 Sacred Mount
The hill of the plebeian secession, recalled by Sempronius as a grievance against the Claudian house.
- The History of Rome, Book 34 §4 Sacred Mount
Hill to which the plebs seceded in 494 BC; invoked ironically of a 'female secession.'