pomeria
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pomerium, pomeri(i):
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
boundary of town; bare strip around town wall; limits (of topic/subject);; space left free from buildings round walls of Roman/Etruscan town (esp. Rome);
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
- M
Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...urbemambiri et festo purgantes moenia lustrolonga per extremos pomeria cingere finespontifices, sacri quibus est permissa potestas. 595turba minor..." - D
Satura IX
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...conuiua ioco mordente facetus et salibus uehemens intra pomeria natis. omnia nunc contra, uultus grauis, horrida siccae silua..."