HINC SEPTEM DOMINOS VIDERE MONTES ET TOTAM LICET AESTIMARE ROMAM (from this point you can see the seven hills and appreciate Rome in its entirety), these verses were written by the Roman poet M. V. Martial (Book 4, Epigram 64) in the 1st century AD and Giuseppe Vasi engraved them in his 1765 Grand View of Rome assuming Martial was referring to the Janiculum: as a matter of fact it seems he had in