Horti Aciliorum

The Horti Aciliorum ("Gardens of the Acilians") were next to the gardens of Lucullus the second large ancient garden on the Pincio in the north of the city of Rome . The gardens were a new installation or addition to the gardens of Lucullus in the 2nd century AD after the area came into the possession of the Acilii Glabriones . The exact extent of the gardens is unknown, but finds show that they could have extended east to the Porta Pinciana and from the church of Santa Trinità dei Monti over the slopes of the hill to the area of Villa Borghese .

In the 4th century the complex belonged to the Pincier family and then Anicia Faltonia Proba and her husband Petronius Probus . After that it came into imperial possession.

To the north, west, and east, the gardens were surrounded by retaining walls that were built along the slopes of the hill. The walls in the east and north were integrated into the Aurelian wall and partially rebuilt. The original masonry consisted of opus reticulatum in towering arcades with massive pillars. A little north of the Trinità dei Monti was a large semicircle in the retaining wall that opened to the west. The flight of stairs led to the lower ground level. There was a water basin near the modern Villa Borghese casino.

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• Samuel Ball Platner , Thomas Ashby : Horti Aciliorum . In: A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome . Oxford University Press, London 1929, p. 264.

Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 45 ″  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 11 ″  E