Septimontium

The Septimontium was a proto-urban festival celebrated in ancient Rome by montani, residents of the seven (sept-) communities associated with the hills or peaks of Rome (montes): Oppius, Palatium, Velia, Fagutal, Cermalus, Caelius, and Cispius.

It was not a public festival in the sense of feriae populi, according to Varro,[2] who sees it as an urban analog to the rural Paganalia.

[3][4] The etymology from septem ("seven") has been doubted; the festival may instead take its name from saept-, "divided," in the sense of "partitioned off, palisaded.

[6] Plutarch's notice of this festival is obscure, and confuses the nature of the Septimontium as represented by inscriptions and Festus with the proverbial seven hills of Rome.

At this time, he notes, Romans refrained from operating horse-drawn vehicles.