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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077016
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85077016#concept
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- Limites (Roman boundaries)
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Sources
- found: Web. 3(limes, pl. limites: a boundary line or line of fortification, specif. one of the fortified frontiers of the ancient Roman empire)
- found: Oxford class. dict.(limes: originated as a surveyor's term for the path that simultaneously marked the boundaries of plots of land and gave access between them. It came to be used in a military sense, first of the roads that penetrated into enemy territory, and thence, as further conquest ceased, of the land boundaries that divided Roman territory from non-Roman.)
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Change Notes
- 2002-09-04: new
- 2002-10-10: revised
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