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

SECT. II.]

The Pomoerium of the Kings.

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which it was against the law either to build upon or to plough, the Romans called
the pomoerium, not because it was more especially beyond the wall, than because
the wall was beyond it; and always, on increasing the size of the city, as far as
they intended that the walls should be advanced outward, so far were these conse-
crated limits extended °. ”

The following passage from Dionysius may also be added :—

“ When everything was performed which he conceived to be acceptable to the
gods, he called all the people to a place appointed and described a quadrangular
figure about the hill, tracing, with a plough drawn by a bull and a cow yoked
together, one continued furrow designed to receive the foundation of the wallp.
From whence this custom remains among the Romans of tracing a furrow with
a plough round the place where they design to build a city. After he had finished
these things, and sacrificed the bull and the cow, and also begun the immolation
of many other victims, he set the people to work q.”

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