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
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..."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..."