Vicus Jugarius

The Vicus Jugarius , or the Street of the Yoke-Makers, was an ancient street leading into the <a href="/facts/Roman_Forum/NI8yC1VI">Roman Forum</a>. The Vicus Jugarius was very old—perhaps even older than Rome itself. The <a href="/facts/Latin/pM3Kge85">Latin</a> word jugarius can mean either "yoke" or "ridge".
The Vicus Jugarius entered the Forum from the southwest, along the shoulder of the <a href="/facts/Capitoline_Hill/RGCg0xY8">Capitoline Hill</a> and between the <a href="/facts/Temple_of_Saturn/zHf7hwEv">Temple of Saturn</a> and the <a href="/facts/Basilica_Julia/SRzbpWjP">Basilica Julia</a> near Servilius’ Pool. The <a href="/facts/Arch_of_Tiberius/P7GdCuzJ">Arch of Tiberius</a> (now vanished) was built for the street to pass through here. Its other end, in the southern <a href="/facts/Campus_Martius/UpGUCbgb">Campus Martius</a>, was near the <a href="/facts/Forum_Holitorium/zP6nfWMf">Forum Holitorium</a>. This was the extent of the street in late Republican and Imperial times, but in former days, it was much longer, extending as far as the <a href="/facts/Quirinal_Hill/ndc8cMu4">Quirinal Hill</a> and representing a part of the original trade route to the <a href="/facts/Tiber_River/zbk9Wajq">Tiber River</a>. Its ancient name may actually have originally signified a “high-road’, rather than the later sense of “yoke”; something like "the Road along the [Capitoline] Ridge".
A spot on the road known as the Equimaelium perhaps recorded the leveling of the home of <a href="/facts/Spurius_Maelius/snINTmyz">Spurius Maelius</a>.

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Vicus Jugarius