The only man who could bring fasces holding the axes inside the sacred boundary of Rome was the dictator.

The trouble with being an anointed sovereign visiting the city of Rome was that one could not cross its pomerium, its sacred boundary.

No one could be buried within Rome's sacred boundary, not even the greatest.

A new phenomenon for Rome, unused to seeing armed troops inside the sacred boundary of the city save in times of emergency.

There are no sacred boundaries to protect us from ourselves.

Roman cemeteries were located outside the pomerium, the sacred boundary of the city.

"By the way, Prince Alexander, under no circumstances can you cross the sacred boundary of Rome into the city."

A foreigner within the sacred boundary, Hercules was prayed to in the Greek way, with head bare.

Her temple is outside the sacred boundary," he said easily.

He was within the pomerium, Rome's sacred boundary, and that meant he could not use the word "dead" as part of an official pronunciation.