For each false statement, click on the corresponding letter on the digital display.
A new number will be revealed that will open the safe if you answer correctly.
A: The Aventine may derive its name from the birds which often nested there.
B: According to Livy, Romulus made his observation of birds from the Aventine.
C: The Aventine is trapezoidal in form and southernmost of Rome's seven hills.
D: The Aventine is actually two low hills with a shallow depression between them.
E: The low peak that was closer to the Tiber river was called the Saxum.
F: The Aventine was not part of Rome proper until the Servian wall was built.
G: The hill was not handed over to the plebeians for settlement until 456 BC.
H: The Aventine remained outside the pomerium until the time of Augustus.
I: Ovid and Virgil repeatedly allude to the thick woods that once clothed the hill.
J: Tradition locates the cave of the giant Cacus, son of Vulcan, on the Aventine.
K: The first public library in Rome was built on the Aventine by Gaius Gracchus.
L: The Aventine was the site of warehouses like the horrea Ummidiana.
M: Trajan built baths on the Aventine dedicated to his friend Licinius Sura.
N: Remus and the Sabine king Numa Pompilius were buried on the Aventine.
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