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24.
Regum in eo ambitio vel gloria varie vulgata: sed
initium condendi, et quod pomerium Romulus posuerit,
noscere haud absurdum reor. igitur a foro boario, ubi
aereum tauri simulacrum aspicimus, quia id genus animalium aratro subditur, sulcus designandi oppidi coeptus
ut magnam Herculis aram amplecteretur; inde certis spatiis
interiecti lapides per ima montis Palatini ad aram Consi,
mox curias veteres, tum ad sacellum Larum, inde forum
Romanum; forumque et Capitolium non a Romulo, sed
a Tito Tatio additum urbi credidere. mox pro fortuna
pomerium auctum. et quos tum Claudius terminos
posuerit, facile cognitu et publicis actis perscriptum.
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