The nature of the ban on arms within Rome\'s pomeri

[Nathan Ross]

I'll post this again from NovaRoma, which seems to have some interesting information on the pomerium.

That is interesting - nothing about weapons, sadly!

This is also good - Platner & Ashby - Pomerium

Again, nothing on a prohibition of weapons. The notes on the extension of the pomerium by Claudius, Vespasian and Trajan are a bit eyebrow-raising though - if the marked cippi were indeed found in situ, it would suggest that by the end of 1st century the pomerium had been extended almost to the future line of the Aurelianic wall - which would place most of the Campus Martius well within the limits, including the Vipsanian Colonnade where those armed Illyrian detachments were camping with their spears, as mentioned by Tacitus... hock: