- The
pomerium or
pomoerium was a
religious boundary around the city of Rome and
cities controlled by Rome. In
legal terms, Rome
existed only
within its...
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outside the
pomerium, with axes that
symbolized the
power to
carry out
capital punishment.
Dictatorial lictors had axes even
within the
pomerium. They followed...
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Praetor – 6
lictors (2
lictors within the
pomerium)
Consul – 12
lictors each
Dictator – 24
lictors outside the
pomerium and 12 inside;
starting from the dictatorship...
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awarded by the Senate.
Before a
commander could enter the city
limits (
pomerium) for his triumph, he had to lay
aside arms
formally and ritually, that...
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province governors) lost
their proconsular "imperium" when they
crossed the
Pomerium—the
sacred boundary of Rome—and
entered the city. In
these situations,...
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storm cloud descended upon the
center of the open
field outside the city's
pomerium in
order to lift the
elderly king to the afterlife. This land, "between...
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triumph and
election to the consulship:
either he
could remain outside the
pomerium (Rome's
sacred boundary)
awaiting a
triumph or
cross the boundary, giving...
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Lateran Palace and
enclosed this area with walls. He
planted an
orchard (
pomerium), a lawn (pratellum), and a
garden (viridarium). The
politics of Vatican...
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electoral activities.
Augustus shifted the
focus of Mars' cult to
within the
pomerium (Rome's
ritual boundary), and
built a
temple to Mars
Ultor as a key religious...
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major public temples were
within the city's sacred,
augural boundary (
pomerium),
which had
supposedly been
marked out by Romulus, with Jupiter's approval...
