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Vatican Hill
Vatican Hill ((ラテン語:Mons Vaticanus), (イタリア語:Colle Vaticano)) is a hill located across the Tiber river from the traditional seven hills of Rome. It is the location of St. Peter's Basilica.
==Etymology==
The ancient Romans had several opinions about the derivation of the Latin word ''Vaticanus''.〔Lawrence Richardson, ''A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), p. 405.〕 Varro (1st century BC) connected it to a ''Deus Vaticanus'' or ''Vagitanus'', a Roman deity thought to endow infants with the capacity for speech evidenced by their first wail ''(vagitus'', the first syllable of which is pronounced ''wa'' in Classical Latin). Varro's rather complicated explanation relates this function to the tutelary deity of the place and to the advanced powers of speech possessed by a prophet ''(vates)'', as preserved by the later antiquarian Aulus Gellius:
We have been told that the word ''Vatican'' is applied to the hill, and the deity who presides over it, from the ''vaticinia'', or prophecies, which took place there by the power and inspiration of the god; but Marcus Varro, in his book on ''Divine Things'', gives another reason for this name. "As Aius," says he, "was called a deity, and an altar was built to his honour in the lowest part of the new road, because in that place a voice from heaven was heard, so this deity was called ''Vaticanus'', because he presided over the principles of the human voice; for infants, as soon as they are born, make the sound which forms the first syllable in ''Vaticanus'', and are therefore said ''vagire'' (to cry) which word expresses the noise which an infant first makes".〔Aulus Gellius, ''Attic Nights'' 16.17: ''Et agrum Vaticanum et eiusdem agri deum praesidem appellatum acceperamus a vaticiniis, quae vi atque instinctu eius dei in eo agro fieri solita essent. Sed praeter hanc causam M. Varro in libris divinarum aliam esse tradit istius nominis rationem: "Nam sicut Aius" inquit "deus appellatus araque ei statuta est, quae est infima nova via, quod eo in loco divinitus vox edita erat, ita Vaticanus deus nominatus, penes quem essent vocis humanae initia, quoniam pueri, simul atque parti sunt, eam primam vocem edunt, quae prima in Vaticano syllabast idcircoque "vagire" dicitur exprimente verbo sonum vocis recentis''." English translation by William Beloe, ''The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius'' (London, 1795), vol. 3, pp. 247–248.〕
St. Augustine, who was familiar with Varro's works on ancient Roman theology,〔Varro's works "were the closest equivalent to an encyclopedia Augustine had": ''Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia'' (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999), p. 863.〕 mentions this deity three times in ''The City of God''.〔Augustine of Hippo, ''De civitate Dei'' 4.8, 11, and 21. 11).〕
''Vaticanus'' is more likely to derive in fact from the name of an Etruscan settlement, possibly called ''Vatica'' or ''Vaticum'', located in the general area the Romans called ''vaticanus ager'', "Vatican territory". If such a settlement existed, however, no trace of it has been discovered. The consular ''fasti'' preserve a personal name ''Vaticanus'' in the mid-5th century BC, of unknown relation to the place name.〔Richardson, ''New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome'', p. 405.〕
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