Argiletum
the Argiletum (or “Argilète”) was a street of the ancient Rome which led Forum romanum to the district of Suburre, that it crossed. It followed roughly speaking the course of the Cloaca Maxima. It corresponds to current Via Cavour. The booksellers were numerous there. The Forum of Nerva was built on its first section.
His exact etymology is not known. Extremely poetically, Virgile makes of it the place of dead of Argus (Argi letum): the king Évandre, who makes visit the site of future Rome with Énée, “watch also the wood of crowned Argilète, takes the place with witness and tells the death of his Argus host.” (Virgile, Énéide, 8,345). More prosaically, Argiletum would be a place from where clay was extracted.
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