Palatine

The Palatine is a hill in Rome on which stood the palaces of the emperors. Caligula extended the palace so that it reached the Forum: he turned the temple of Castor and Pollux into a vestibule and linked his house to the Capitol by a bridge (Suetonius, Caligula 22). Here, in a covered corridor of the palace, he was killed on January 24, AD 41. Augustus, who was born on this hill, had lived here before him, and from the name Palatine comes the word “palace.”