place
The Capitoline citadel
the citadel
also: arx, the Capitol
The arx of Rome on the Capitoline hill. Lucretius alludes to its sacred geese, whose cackling is said to have roused the garrison when the Gauls scaled the rock (387 BC).
Reading notes
- On the Nature of Things §4.51 citadel
The arx on the Capitoline; its sacred geese, by their cackling, were said to have saved Rome from a night assault by the Gauls.