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Comitium

Proper noun

Meaning

the Comitium

(historical) The original open-air public meeting space of Ancient Rome, of great religious significance.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

In Sparta, paintings have been taken out of certain walls by cutting through the bricks, then have been placed in wooden frames, and so brought to the Comitium. Vitruvius

In Sparta, paintings have been taken out of certain walls by cutting through the bricks, then have been placed in wooden frames, and so brought to the Comitium to adorn the aedileship of [C. Visellius] Varro and [C. Licinius] Murena. Vitruvius

When Servius expanded Rome's influence and boundaries, and reorganised its citizenship and armies, his "new Rome" was still centered on the Comitium, the Casa Romuli or "hut" of Romulus. Source: Internet

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