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tius nominis rationem: non sicut Aius.. ita Vaticanus deus nominatus penes quem essent vocis humanae initia . .), who gives two current explanations of the name. It is probable that the adjective form, Vaticanus, is derived from some substantive, perhaps Vaticanum (Elter, see below), or from the early Etruscan name of some settlement, like Vatica or Vaticum (Niebuhr), of which all other traces have vanished, except possibly the cognomen Vaticanus which is found twice in the consular Fasti in 455 and 451 B.C. (RE i. A. 1071 ; BC 1908, 23-26). (2) VATICANI MONTES without much doubt a general designation for the hills in the ager Vaticanus, but used, in its only occurrence in litera- ture, of the long ridge from the Janiculum to the modern Monte Mario (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 33. 4: a ponte Milvio Tiberim duci sccundum montes Vaticanos, campum Martium coacdificari, illum autem campus Vaticanum fieri quasi Martium campum). Here campus Vaticanus must be used of the whole district betwe