1 janv. 753 av. J.-C. - Founding of the city of rome

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Ancient Rome was founded by two brothers according to legend.Then, taking this as a center, they marked out the city in a circle around it. And the founder [Romulus], having shod a plough with a bronze ploughshare, and having yoked to it a bull and a cow, himself drove a deep furrow around the boundary lines . . . With this line, they mark out the course of the wall, and it is called, by contraction, "pomerium," that is, "post murum" behind or next to the wall. And where they intended to put in a gate, there they took the share out of the ground, lifted the plough over, and left a vacant space. And this is the reason why they regard all the wall as sacred except the gates. But if they considered the gates sacred, it would not be possible, without religious rituals, to bring into and send out of the city things which are necessary, and yet unclean.