07-18-2011, 12:44 PM
On Caesar's assassins escaping blasphemy charges - good points. I can't remember were I read it :roll: I'll have to hunt it out.
Did the Catline conspirators hoard weapons within the pomerium, as the extents of the pomerium were at the time? Was there not a sacrificial religious aspect to the games? Was the forum (cattle market) actually within the pomerium in 264 BC when Scaeva held the munus (a religious ceremony) there? Is the coliseum actually inside the pomerium (see below)?
Nathan, by "shield designs", do you mean their physical shapes?
Sean, “mundus” means "without contamination", and the carrying of weapons within the pomerium was seen as contamination. But according to this, the pomerium didn't always follow the lines of the walls, so perhaps that explains how the Catiline conspirators managed to do what they did, if their houses weren't inside the pomerium itself?
Did the Catline conspirators hoard weapons within the pomerium, as the extents of the pomerium were at the time? Was there not a sacrificial religious aspect to the games? Was the forum (cattle market) actually within the pomerium in 264 BC when Scaeva held the munus (a religious ceremony) there? Is the coliseum actually inside the pomerium (see below)?
Nathan, by "shield designs", do you mean their physical shapes?
Sean, “mundus” means "without contamination", and the carrying of weapons within the pomerium was seen as contamination. But according to this, the pomerium didn't always follow the lines of the walls, so perhaps that explains how the Catiline conspirators managed to do what they did, if their houses weren't inside the pomerium itself?
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