| LC control no. | sh 85077016 |
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| Topical heading | Limes (Roman boundary) |
| Variant(s) | Limites (Roman boundaries) |
| See also | Fortification Rome--Boundaries |
| Found in | Web. 3 (limes, pl. limites: a boundary line or line of fortification, specif. one of the fortified frontiers of the ancient Roman empire) 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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