The Collaborative International Dictionary
Palatine Hill \Palatine Hill\ (p[a^]l"[.a]*t[imac]n), prop. n. One of the "seven hills" of Rome, situated southeast of the Capitoline and north-northeast of the Aventine. It borders on the Roman Forum; is the traditional seat of the city founded by Romulus; was the seat of private and later of imperial residences; and contains many antiquities.
palatine \pal"a*tine\, a. [F. palatin, L. palatinus, fr. palatium. See Palace, and cf. Paladin.]
Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.
Of or pertaining to the Palatinate.
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Of or pertaining to a Palatine[1].
Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and County.
Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, once occupied by the palace of the C[ae]sars. See also Palatine Hill in the vocabulary, and Palace.
Wikipedia
The Palatine Hill (; ; ) is the centermost of the Seven Hills of Rome and is one of the most ancient parts of the city. It stands 40 metres above the Roman Forum, looking down upon it on one side, and upon the Circus Maximus on the other.
It is the etymological origin of the word palace and its cognates in other languages (Italian palazzo, French palais, German Palast, Czech palác, etc.).
Usage examples of "palatine hill".
His first work was to fortify the Palatine hill where he had been brought up.
At Rome where he was worshipped as Mars and as Quirinus he had a sacrarium on the Palatine Hill in the Roma Quadrala of Romulus.
On this occasion, I did have a fairly good view when each of the two young men took his own company and began his run around the base of the Palatine Hill.
They then ran about the Palatine Hill, striking out with those thongs.
I walked the meandering streets of the older section below the Palatine Hill, an area of small dwellings for people of more humble means.
The ladies of the Palatine Hill would never recognize in this wiry, weary man, wrapped in every warm garment he owned or could dice for, the aristocrat in his white toga with the broad purple stripe.
The dark pines and cypresses of the Palatine Hill made a fitting backdrop for that ruined splendor.
And as Regina approached the imperial palace on the Palatine Hill, even seventeen years after arriving in the city, she was awed.