Latin term for market, market place; rarely also the forecourt of a tomb (in the meaning of Greek drómos, e.g. Cic. Leg. 2,61) or part of a wine press (Varro, Rust. 1,54; Columella 11,2,71).
As the mercantile and administrative centre of a Roman city ( Town/City), the forum, which took the form of a large open space framed by buildings, was ess…
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Paulus, Christoph Georg (Berlin),
Hurschmann, Rolf (Hamburg),
Uggeri, Giovanni (Florence) and
Olshausen, Eckart (Stuttgart),
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