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Headword:
*pwmh/rion
Adler number: pi,2178
Translated headword: pomerium
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the image of the wall.
Greek Original:*pwmh/rion: to\ tou= tei/xous ei)ko/nisma.
Notes:
OCD4 s.v.
pomerium: 'explained in antiquity as meaning what comes after, or before, the wall -- was the line demarcating an augurally constituted city'.
For the word in Latin authors and inscriptions, see generally Lewis & Short s.v. In this Greek transliterated form it occurs in
Plutarch (
Romulus 11.4) and frequently in
Cassius Dio. It is glossed in ps.-
Zonaras as
to\ tou= tei/xous kallw/pisma "the decoration of the wall"; the same lexicon has an entry for
pomh/rion with omicron, glossed as
to/pos "a place."
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 March 2010@06:47:10.
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