--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > another 12 x 660 feet + 660 feet,
> > total 29040 feet or 5.5 miles.
>
> Seems I can't get anything right today. Should read "another 12 x
> 660 feet + another 10 x 660 feet".
And to the other plough/demarcate words I add
http://tinyurl.com/3foza3
More about the pomerium:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomerium
http://tinyurl.com/538okd
(from the same Varro quote as in the Driessen's article)
'The custom of making a pomoerium was common to the Latins and
Etruscans,b and the manner in which it was done in the earliest times,
when a town was to be founded, was as follows: A bullock and a
heifer were yoked to a plough, and a furrow was drawn around the place
which was to be occupied by the new town, in such a manner that all
the clods fell inward. The little mound thus formed was the symbolical
wall, and along it ran the pomoerium, within the compass of which
alone the city-auspices (auspicia urbana) could be taken (Varro, de
Ling. Lat. l. c.). '
but more clear on the sod-turning in this translation.
Torsten