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Clivus ( Latin for " slope", "rise") can refer to
- Clivus toilet
- Clivus (anatomy)
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Clivus (road), a kind of Roman road (e.g. the clivus suburanus)
- Clivus Capitolinus
The clivus ( Latin for "slope") is a part of the cranium at the skull base, a shallow depression behind the dorsum sellæ that slopes obliquely backward. It forms a gradual sloping process at the anterior most portion of the basilar occipital bone at its junction with the sphenoid bone. On axial planes, it sits just posterior to the sphenoid sinuses. Just lateral to the clivus bilaterally is the foramen lacerum (the internal carotid artery reaches the middle cranial fossa above the foramen lacerum), proximal to its anastomosis with the Circle of Willis. Posterior to the clivus is the basilar artery.
The pons sits on the clivus.
Clivus is also used as an abbreviated term for the clivus ocularis which is the sloping inner wall of the retina as it dips into the foveola in the macula of the eye. For this reason, and to disambiguate, the clivus is sometimes referred to as the Blumenbach clivus.
Usage examples of "clivus".
I have located the College of Lictors behind the temple of the Lares Praestites on the eastern side of the Forum Romanum adjacent to the great inn on the corner of the Clivus Orbius, but there is no factual evidence to support this location.
Caesar, who encountered him and his multitudes of clients at the corner of the Sacra Via and the Clivus Orbius, just entering the lower Forum.
Sulla clapped him on the back and went straight on down the hill of the Clivus Victoriae to the spot where the alley in which his house lay branched off it.
Forum alongside the rostra, while Gaius Marius was carried up the Clivus Argentarius to his house.
Gaius Marius had ever doubted the depth of the love the people of Rome bore him, those fears would have been laid to rest the following morning when he emerged from his house and turned to negotiate the steep slope of the Clivus Argentarius as it plunged down through the Fontinalis Gate to end in the lower Forum.
Comitia and turned left to walk between the temple of Saturn and the vaulted arcade opposite housing the Twelve Gods, they paused, stopped, swung their heads toward the Clivus Argentarius and began to cheer in an acclamation far louder than that they had accorded Sulla.
Forum he walked behind his lictors, never once craning his neck to verify what awaited him at the bottom of the Clivus Argentarius.
And Sulla turned to walk off toward the Forum, leaving Aelia standing on the Clivus Victoriae completely alone.
Aelia standing on the Clivus Victoriae alone, Sulla underwent his usual plummet into black depression during the hours following.
He ducked beneath the colonnade of the Basilica Porcia, where frantic merchants were trying to disassemble their stalls, and worked his way into the Clivus Argentarius.
Within minutes the First Cohort had forced its way into the Clivus Suburanus and the Vicus Sabuci, the Second Cohort followed suit, and more cohorts were streaming in disciplined files through the Esquiline Gate, sheer weight and training pushing back the civilians fighting for Marius and Sulpicius.
Vicus Sabuci under orders to turn right into the Vicus Sobrius and right again into the Clivus Suburanus, there to take the city mob in the rear.
Sulla to Lucullus and Pompeius Rufus as he walked down the slope of the Clivus Sacer from the Velia.
Young Marius turned in the direction of home, his father and Lucius Decumius walked up the Clivus Palatinus.
Lucius Decumius, the two children emerged into the Clivus Argentarius and walked down the hill toward the Forum Romanum.