milliariumn.
/mɪlɪˈɛːrɪəm/, U.S. /ˌmɪliˈɛriəm/ Roman History.
In full golden milliarium: a gilded stone pillar erected during the reign of Augustus in the Forum in Rome below the temple of Saturn, and from which distances from Rome were calculated. Hence: a pillar or other marker serving a similar purpose in another city of the Roman Empire.
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1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. i. 16 Into the Velabrum, and thence to the golden Milliarium vnder the temple of Saturnus.
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 139 I saw the Milliarum [1698 milliarium], that is, a little pillar of stone with a great round brasen ball vpon it.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 594/1 Near the rostra, below the temple of Saturn, stood the Milliarium Aureum, a marble column sheathed in gilt bronze and inscribed with the names and distances of the chief towns on the roads which radiated from the thirty-seven gates of Rome... The Miliarium [sic] is mentioned in the Notitia.
1942 Archit. Rev. 91 14 (caption) St. Swithin's, Cannon Street, with the alleged milliarium of the Roman roads recessed in its street front.
1996 J. M. Dean Medieval Eng. Polit. Writings 241 It [sc. the ‘London Stone’] originally might have been a Roman milliarium stone, or milestone, which measured distances.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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