Πωμήριον
pomerium
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Translation
[Meaning] the image of the wall.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πωμήριον· τὸ τοῦ τείχους εἰκόνισμα.
Betacode
*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 asto\ tou= tei/xous kallw/pisma "the decoration of the wall"; the same lexicon has an entry forpomh/rion with omicron, glossed asto/pos "a place."
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