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Vātīcānus (The "i" is short in Hor. C. 1, 20, 7, but it got lengthened in Juv. and Mart.), -a, -um, adj. (sc. mons, collis), the Vatican Hill in Rome, on the western bank of the Tiber.

Hor. C. 1, 20, 7
Juv. 6, 344;

Fest. p. 379 Müll.;
cf. Becker, Antiq. 1, p. 659 sq.; also plur.,

for the hill and the space around it:

“montes Vaticani,” Cic. Att. 13, 33, 4:
“campus,” id. ib.: “ager,” id. Agr. 2, 35, 96:
“vallis,”
between the Vatican and the Janiculum, Tac. A. 4, 14: “Circus,” Plin. 16, 40, 76, § 201:
Vaticana (sc. vina),
Vatican wine (a very inferior sort), Mart. 6, 92, 3; 10, 45, 5; cf. “cadus,” id. 1, 19, 2; 12, 48, 14.—Subst.: “in Vaticano,” Plin. 8, 14, 14, § 37; 16, 44, 87, § 237; 18, 3, 4, § 20:

Vaticanus, the divinity presiding over the Vatican, Varr. ap. Gell. 16, 17, 2; Aug. Civ. Dei, 4, 8, 12.