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The chief _fora venalia_ or markets, were _boarium_, for oxen and beef,
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway
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Gallic man and woman (slaves, no doubt) were buried alive in the _forum boarium_ in a hole closed by a big stone, which had already, says Livy, been used for human victims -- "minime Romano sacro."
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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He begins with Rome, and here it is worth noting that these portents issue from the crowded haunts of the markets, the _forum olitorium_, and the _forum boarium_, both close to the river and the quays.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Greek, buried alive in the _Forum boarium_, 112, 320
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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English market Towns, against any _forum boarium_ of the
Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." George Colman 1799
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Pliny, we may note, also speaks of the _forum boarium_ as the scene of the sacrifice, where also the first gladiatorial games were exhibited. [
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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