POMEGRANATE

The fruit of the Pvnica granatum. The pulp is acid, and the rind highly astringent. The dried flowers, which are also astringent, were formerly used in medicine, under the name of Bnlaustinc flowers. POMtERIUM. (Lat. post, bi/iind, and murus, a wall.) In Roman Antiquities, a space of ground, both within and without the walls of a city, kept free from buildings (Livy, xiii.), and const-crated by a religious ceremony derived from the Ktruscans. (See n memoir of DAnville on the extent of ancient Rome, Mem. de VAcad. des Inscr., vol. xxi., p. 206.) When it was found nece ary to extend the limits of any city, a new pomozciuia was formed, and the former one desecrated. [s. 979]