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The term pōmērium is a classical contraction of the Latin phrase post moerium (lit. ' behind/beyond the wall ').The Roman historian Livy writes in his Ab Urbe Condita that, although the etymology implies a meaning referring to a single side of the wall, the pomerium was originally an area of ground on both sides of city walls.
Pomerium is an American early music choral group founded by Alexander Blachly at the University of Notre Dame in 1972. The group has fostered the careers of early music performers including Julianne Baird , Drew Minter , and the members of Anonymous 4 .
He was born in 1430 in Temesvár, Hungary (now Timișoara, Romania).In 1458 he went to the University of Kraków.In 1463 he was licensed in Theology. Possibly in 1471 he left Kraków as a doctor, then in 1483 he is mentioned in the Franciscan Community Annales of the St. John Monastery in Buda, the Hungarian capital city.
It is possible that the circuit of the wall marked out what later Romans believed to be the original pomerium (sacred boundary) of the city. [20] The discovery of gates and streets connected to the wall, with the remains of various huts, suggest that Rome had by this time: acquired a defined boundary ...
The Roman idea of an absolute and unchangeable center of the city is related to the beliefs that the city is a permanent dwelling of gods, with both the umbilicus and the pomerium predestined by the divine forces; even if the city was physically destroyed, it was not forsaken for as long as the deities remained. [4]
Pomeranians are small dogs weighing 1.36–3.17 kilograms (3.0–7.0 lb) and standing 8–14 inches (20–36 cm) high at the withers. [1] They are compact but sturdy dogs with an abundant textured coat with a highly plumed tail set high and flat. [2]
Roman cippi were made of wood or stone; inscriptions on the stone cippi indicate their function or the area that they surrounded, like sanctuaries and temple areas. In Rome they marked the limits of the pomerium after the city's walls were expanded further out, the course of aqueducts, and the cursus publicus. Cippi lined up in rows were also ...
Octavian installed his praetorians within the pomerium, the religious and legal boundary of Rome; this was the first occasion when troops were permanently garrisoned in Rome proper. In the Orient, Antony commanded three cohorts; in 32 BC, Antony issued coins honouring his Praetorian Guard.