Aventine Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome, the mount to which the plebs sullenly retired on their refusal to submit to the patrician oligarchy, and from which they were enticed back by Menenius Agrippa by the well-known fable of the members of the body and the stomach.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Avelli`no * Aventi`nus