The Location of the Houses of Cicero and Clodius and The Porticus Catuli on the Palatine Hill in Rome

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of more than ordinary interest, inasmuch as he locates it for us in relation to a number of other important houses and buildings, and recent archaeological investigations at the southwest corner of the hill can be used to throw fresh light on this question. Cicero's house almost certainly stood along the higher leg of the Clivus Victoriae, along the northwest side of the hill running from the north corner to the precinct of the Magna Mater. Here it would have overlooked the Forum Romanum, as Cicero says in conspectu prope totius urbis (Dom. 100).1 On one side it adjoined the Porticus Catuli, which Clodius enlarged by the addition of a part of Cicero's property, but only a fraction (yix pars aedium mearum decimay Dom. 116), after destroying Cicero's house during Cicero's self-