(from the article `Rome`) Though considerably built over with modern houses and travelled by modern bus lines, the Aventine still bespeaks a Rome of the past, if not the ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/130
Av'en·tine noun A post of security or defense. [ Poetic] « Into the castle's tower, The only Aventine that now is left him. Beau. & Fl. » Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/151