Scelerātus

, a plain of Rome near the Colline gate, where the vestal Minucia was buried alive, when convicted of adultery. Livy , bk. 8 , ch. 15 .――One of the gates of Rome was called Scelerat a , because the 300 Fabii, who were killed at the river Cremera, had pa ed through it when they went to attack the enemy. It was before named Car mental is .――There was also a street at Rome formerly called Cyprius , which received the name of the Scelerat us vic us , because there Tullia ordered her postilion to drive her chariot over the body of her father, king Servius. Livy , bk. 1 , ch. 48 .— Ovid , Ibis , li. 365 .