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The pomerium or pomoerium (Latin, from ''post'' and ''moerium'' / ''murum'', "wall") was a religious boundary around the city of Rome and cities controlled by Rome. In legal terms, Rome existed only within its ''pomerium''; everything beyond it was simply territory ''(ager)'' belonging to Rome. ==Location and extensions== Tradition maintained that the pomerium was the original line ploughed by Romulus around the walls of the original city, and that it was inaugurated by Servius Tullius. The legendary date of its demarcation, 21 April, continued to be celebrated as the anniversary of the city’s founding.〔(Pomerium ), Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 24 January 2012.〕 The Roman historian Livy writes, in his ''Ab urbe condita'', that although the etymology of the word ''pomerium'' (''post'' – ''moerium'') implies a meaning of "beyond the wall", the pomerium was in fact an area of ground both on the inner and outer sides of the city wall. According to Livy, it was an Etruscan tradition to consecrate this area by augury, which in part had the purpose of preventing buildings from being erected close to the wall (although he writes that in his time, houses were in fact built against the wall). Livy also writes that it was unlawful to inhabit or to farm the area of the pomerium.〔Livy, ''Ab urbe condita'', I.44〕 The pomerium did not follow the line of the Servian walls, and remained unchanged until the Dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla, in a demonstration of his absolute power, expanded it in 80 BC. Several white marker stones (known as ''cippi'') commissioned by Claudius have been found ''in situ'' and several have been found away from their original location. These stones mark the boundaries and relative dimensions of the pomerium extension by Claudius. This extension is recorded in Tacitus and outlined by Aulus Gellius.〔Tacitus, Annales, XII, 24; Noctes Atticae, XIII, 14, 7.〕 The pomerium was not a walled area (unlike the Chinese Forbidden City), but rather a legally and religiously defined one marked by ''cippi''. It encompassed neither the entire metropolitan area nor even all the Seven Hills (the Palatine Hill was within the ''pomerium'', but the Capitoline and Aventine Hills were not). The Curia Hostilia and the well of the Comitium in the Forum Romanum, two extremely important locations in the government of the city-state and its empire, were located within the pomerium. The Temple of Bellona was beyond the pomerium. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「pomerium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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