Caelian

American  

[see-lee-uhn] / ˈsi li ən /

noun

1. the southeastern hill of the seven hills of ancient Rome.

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Caelian British  

/ ˈsiːlɪən /

noun

1. the southeasternmost of the Seven Hills of Rome

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Example Sentences

Caelian: When tour groups swarm down Via dei Fori Imperiali toward the Colosseum, I diverge.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2019

But inside the big military hospital on the Caelian Hill overlooking the Colosseum, a lone middle-aged woman moved with purpose.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another race thy view shall entertain Where bending Tiber skirts the grassy plain; Or should his vagrant stream that plain o'erflow, The Caelian hill the dusty course will show.

From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

The view south takes in the Caelian Hill, the ancient residence of Tullus Hostilius.

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John

Soon, if not at once, he came to serve under the rule of S. Benedict, whose life he afterwards wrote, in the monastery dedicated to S. Andrew on the Caelian hill.

From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by Hutton, William Holden