Crossword-Solution: POMOERIUM
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Hint 1 meaning
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything
flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour
water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the
waters; to pour out sand or dust.
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Sentences with POMOERIUM (5)
The Goths were expected to perform military service, and were drilled from their youth in those military evolutions which had so often given the disciplined Roman the victory over the undisciplined Goth, till every pomoerium (boulevard), says Ennodius, might be seen full of boys and lads, learning to be soldiers.
Romulus then harnessed a white cow and a snow-white bull to a plow with a brazen share, and holding the handle himself, traced the line of the future walls with a furrow (called the pomoerium [Footnote: _Pomoerium_ is composed of _post_, behind, and _murus_, a wall.
The _pomoerium_ of Rome was several times enlarged.]), carrying the plow over the places where gates were to be left, and causing those who followed to see that every furrow as it fell was turned inwards toward the city.
When Romulus had laid out the pomoerium, he made the outline something like a square, and called it _Roma Quadrata_, that is "Square Rome," but he did not direct the landmarks of the public domain to be distinctly indicated.
The increase of population led to the extension of the pomoerium, and Servius completed the city by including within a wall of stone all of the celebrated seven hills [Footnote: The "seven hills" were not always the same.