Sacral vs Pomerium - What's the difference?
sacral | pomerium |
(historical, Roman Empire) The tract of land denoting the formal, sacral ambit of a Roman city.
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*:: ? The religious boundary of a city.
As nouns the difference between sacral and pomerium
is that sacral is any of the sacral bones that make up the sacrum while pomerium is (historical|roman empire) the tract of land denoting the formal, sacral ambit of a roman city.As an adjective sacral
is (anatomy) of the sacrum.pomerium
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Alternative forms
* ** * ** pomarium ** pomerium ** * ** * ** pomerium **Noun
(pomeria)- But to return to the point from which I digressed, and to illustrate how some people spend useless efforts on these same topics, the man I referred to reported that Metellus in his triumph, after conquering the Carthaginians in Silicy, alone among all the Romans had 120 elephants led before his chariot, and that Sulla was the last of the Romans to have extended the pomerium''''',? which it was the ancient practice to extend after acquiring Italian, but never provincial territory. Is it better to know this than to know that the Aventine Hill, as he asserted, is outside the '''''pomerium for one of two reasons, either because the plebs withdrew to it or because when Remus took the auspices there the birds had not been favourable – and countless further theories that are either false or very close to lies?