Parker, John Henry: The archaeology of Rome (1,text): I. The primitive fortifications (Oxford [u.a.], 1874)

SECT. I.]

The Pomoerium of the Empire.

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entering the pomoeria; in other words, he entered Rome from the
west, and on crossing the bridge entered the precincts of the
sacred city.
The original purport of the ceremonies, and the uses of the
institution had long ceased, and the word itself seems then to have
gradually died out, and its origin and meaning to have been
forgotten.

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