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anything I have written. And some of them 

 diametrically contravene that which I have 

 written. I proceed to prove my assertions. 



PROP. 1. Throughout the paper he confounds to- 

 g ether what I had distinguished, namely, the city 

 of Gadara and the vicinage attached to it, not as a 

 mere pom cerium, but as a rural district. 



In my judgment, this statement is devoid of 

 foundation. In my paper on " The Keepers of 

 the Herd of Swine " I point out, at some length, 

 that, " in accordance with the ancient Hellenic 

 practice," each city of the Decapolis must have 

 been " surrounded by a certain amount of territory 

 amenable to its jurisdiction " : and, to enforce this 

 conclusion, I quote what Josephus says about the 

 " villages that belonged to Gadara and Hippos." 

 As I understand the teTmpomerium or pommrium? 

 it means the space which, according to Roman 

 custom, was kept free from buildings, immediately 

 within and without the walls of a city ; and which 

 defined the range of the auspicia urlana. The 

 conception of a pomcerium as a " vicinage attached 

 to" a city, appears to be something quite novel 

 and original. But then, to be sure, I. do not know 

 how many senses Mr. Gladstone may attach to the 

 word " vicinage." 



Whether Gadara had a pomcerium, in the 



proper technical sense, or not, is a point on which 



I offer no opinion. But that the city had a very 



1 See Marquardt, Romische Staatsverwaltung, Bd. III. p. 408. 



