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Gathering himself up for mischief, the Alcalde took a sweep, as if ploughing out the line of some vast encampment, or tracing the pomaerium for some future Rome; then, like thunder and lightning, with arms flying aloft in the air, down he came upon the trembling trench.
Gathering himself up for mischief, the Alcalde took a sweep, as if ploughing out the line of some vast encampment, or tracing the pomaerium for some future Rome; then, like thunder and lightning, with arms flying aloft in the air, down he came upon the trembling trench.
It is difficult to suppose that the real city the streets and squares can at any time have occupied one half of this enormous area, A clear space, we are told, was left for a considerable distance inside the wall like the pomaerium of the Romans upon which no houses were allowed to be built.
To discuss this question thoroughly would require a separate memoir, for which, after all, there are not sufficient materials: meantime I will make this remark: That the ordinary computations of a million, or a million and a quarter, derived from the surviving accounts of the different "regions," apply to Rome within the Pomaerium, and are, therefore, no more valid for the total Rome of Trajan's time, stretching so many miles beyond it, than the bills of mortality for what is technically "London within the walls" can serve at this day as a base for estimating the population of that total London which we mean and presume in our daily conversation.
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