Jupiter Capitolinus.
The ESQUILINE HILL was given by Augustus to Mecænas, who built thereon a magnificent
mansion.
The PALATINE HILL was the largest of the seven. Here Romulus held his court, whence the
word “palace” (palatium).
The QUIRINAL HILL was where the Quirés or Curês settlèd. It was also called
“Cabalinus,” from two marble statues of a horse, one of which was the work of Phidias, the other of
Praxiteles.
The VIMINAL HILL was so called from the number of osiers (vimines) which grew there. It
contained the Temple of Jupiter Viminalis.
City of the Sun (The). A romance by Campanella, similar to the Republic of Plato, Utopia of Sir Thomas More, and Atlantis of Lord Bacon (1568-1639).
City of the Violet Crown Athens is so called by Aristophanes iostefauoz (see Equites, 1323 and 1329; and
Acharnians, 637). Macaulay refers to Athens as the “violet-crowned city.” Ion (a violet) was a representative
king of Athens, whose four sons gave names to the four Athenian classes; and Greece, in Asia Minor,
was called Ionia. Athens was the city of “Ion crowned its king” or “of the Violet crowned.” Similarly Paris
is the “city of lilies”- i.e. fleurs-de-luce or Louis-flowers.
I do not think that Athens was called from “the
purple hue which Hymettus assumed in the evening sky.”
Civic Crown (See under Crown .)
Civil List Now applied to expenses voted annually by Parliament to pay the personal expenses of the Sovereign, the household expenses, and the pensions awarded by Royal bounty; but before the reign of William III. it embraced all the heads of public expenditure, except those of the army and navy.
Civil Magistrate (A). A civic or municipal magistrate, as distinguished from ecclesiastical authority.
Civil Service Estimates (The), C.S.E. The annual Parliamentary grant to cover the expenses of the diplomatic services, the post-office and telegraphs, the grant for national education, the collection of the revenue, and other expenses neither pertaining to the Sovereign, the army, nor the navy.