Excerpt from The Journal of Philology, 1882, Vol. 10

The epithet aquosas as applied to the Esquiline hill by Propertius has not been rightly interpreted by commentators. They suppose that the hill was so called from its springs and marshy ground, and refer to Yarro's statement (L. L. v. § 49) that its name was derived from the cesculeta which grew upon it, as proving that marshy ground occupied at least a part of the slopes. But neither of these explanations is satisfactory. Yarro's derivation of 'Esquili?' from the cesculeta which grew there seems improbable, and Mommsen R. H. Bk. i. ch. 4, and Corssen Lat. Spr. Yol. IL p. 1023 are probably correct in taking the true derivation to be from excolince "the suburban district," as inquilinus from incolo and sescenti from sexcenti.

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