The pomerium or pomoerium was a religious boundary around the city of Rome and cities controlled by Rome. In legal terms, Rome existed only within its...
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Praetor – 6 lictors (2 lictors within the pomerium) Consul – 12 lictors each Dictator – 24 lictors outside the pomerium and 12 inside; starting from the dictatorship...
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outside the pomerium, with axes that symbolized the power to carry out capital punishment. Dictatorial lictors had axes even within the pomerium. They followed...
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storm cloud descended upon the center of the open field outside the city's pomerium in order to lift the elderly king to the afterlife. This land, "between...
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bayonets fixed". This honour dates back to ancient Rome which regarded the "pomerium", the boundary of the city, as sacred. Promagistrates and generals were...
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triumph and election to the consulship: either he could remain outside the pomerium (Rome's sacred boundary) awaiting a triumph or cross the boundary, giving...
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the Septimontium: cf. the repetition of the formula vel intra pomerium vel extra pomerium in Livy's record concerning the expiation of the Horatius (I...
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awarded by the Senate. Before a commander could enter the city limits (pomerium) for his triumph, he had to lay aside arms formally and ritually, that...
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province governors) lost their proconsular "imperium" when they crossed the Pomerium—the sacred boundary of Rome—and entered the city. In these situations,...
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learning. Cicero arrived in Rome on 4 January 49 BC. He stayed outside the pomerium, to retain his promagisterial powers: either in expectation of a triumph...
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electoral activities. Augustus shifted the focus of Mars' cult to within the pomerium (Rome's ritual boundary), and built a temple to Mars Ultor as a key religious...
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Lateran Palace and enclosed this area with walls. He planted an orchard (pomerium), a lawn (pratellum), and a garden (viridarium). The politics of Vatican...
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major public temples were within the city's sacred, augural boundary (pomerium), which had supposedly been marked out by Romulus, with Jupiter's approval...
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been set, made it impossible for Caesar to stand unless he crossed the pomerium and gave up the right to his triumph. Caesar petitioned the Senate to stand...
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between civil and military spheres. As long as the consuls were in the pomerium (the city of Rome), they were at the head of government, and all the other...
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Τετράγωνος Ῥώμη, Tetrágōnos Rhṓmē) was an area or structure within the original pomerium of the ancient city of Rome, probably the Palatine Hill with both its Palatium...
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Claudian pomerium marker, where written words ampliavit and terminavit use turned digamma (highlighted in red)...
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march on Rome: The consul Sulla led an army of his partisans across the pomerium into Rome. Social War (91–89 BC): The war ended. 87 BC First Mithridatic...
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and its shrine (sacrarium) were located outside Rome's sacred boundary (pomerium), perhaps as the "dark side" of the Aventine Triad. In the later mythological...
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take place either inside or outside the formal boundary of the city (the pomerium), no meeting could take place more than a mile (in the Roman system of...
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the Praetorian Guard in civilian clothes tasked with duties within the pomerium (sacred center of the capital, where all armed forces were forbidden)....
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booty to build the first wall all around the Seven Hills of Rome, the pomerium. He also reorganized the army. Servius Tullius instituted a new constitution...
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sessions with legislative power; endorse candidates in elections; expand the pomerium; and use discretionary power whenever necessary. The text further states...
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while Tellus, whose ancient temple was within Rome's sacred boundary (pomerium), represents the original earth goddess cultivated by the state priests...
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Sons, Inc. Merrill, Elmer Truesdell (1909). "The City of Servius and the Pomerium". Classical Philology. 4 (4): 420–432. doi:10.1086/359328. JSTOR 262369...
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and Serapis within the pomerium, the city's innermost, sacred boundary, but allowed them in parts of the city outside the pomerium, thus marking Egyptian...
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forbidden to ride a horse or see the army outside the sacred boundary of Rome (pomerium). Although he served the god who embodied the sanctity of the oath, it...
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Finally, in a demonstration of his absolute power, Sulla expanded the "Pomerium", the sacred boundary of Rome, unchanged since the time of the kings. Sulla's...
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circuit of the wall marked out what later Romans believed to be the original pomerium (sacred boundary) of the city. The discovery of gates and streets connected...
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Tullius. Its location is remarkable as the Aventine is situated outside the pomerium, i.e. original territory of the city, in order to comply with the tradition...
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