Roma quadrata (

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

, "Square Rome") was an area, or perhaps a structure, within the original

pomerium The ''pomerium'' or ''pomoerium'' was a religious boundary around the city of Rome and cities controlled by Rome. In legal terms, Rome existed only within its ''pomerium''; everything beyond it was simply territory ('' ager'') belonging to Rome. ...

of the ancient city of

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, probably the Palatine Hill with its Palatium and Cermalus peaks and its slopes. It apparently dated to the earliest stage of the city's formation. The original meaning had already become obscure to both

and

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by the late

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(2nd century BC).

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* Varro ap. Solin. 1.17 * Plut. Rom. 9 * Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 2.65 * Tac. Ann. 12.24

* Brocato, P. "Dalle capanne del Cermalus alla Roma quadrata." Roma Romolo Remo e la fondazione della città (Catalog of the Exhibit) (2000): 284-287. * Carandini, Andrea. Remo e Romolo: dai rioni dei Quiriti alla città dei Romani (775/750-700/675 a. C.). Vol. 210. Einaudi, 2006. * Carandini, Andrea, "The Blessing of the Palatine and the Founding of Roma Quadrata," in Idem, ''Rome: Day One'' (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2011), 50-62. * Castagnoli, F. "Roma Quadrata, in, Studies presented to DM Robinson", I, St." (1951): 389-399. * Castagnoli, Ferdinando. "Il Tempio Romano: Questioni di Terminologia e di Tipologia." Papers of the British School at Rome (1984): 3-20. * Musti, Domenico. "Varrone nell'insieme delle tradizioni su Roma quadrata,«." StudUrb 49 (1975): 297-318. * Quercioli, Mauro. Le mura e le porte di Roma : dalla Roma quadrata alle mura aureliane, dalla città leonina alle moderne fortificazioni: un singolare itinerario storico tra imponenti porte e possenti bastioni alla riscoperta delle "difese" di Roma Newton Compton, 1982. * * Rykwert, Joseph, ''The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World'' (MIT Press, 1976, 1988)
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