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Brewer's: Sacred Way
(The) in ancient Rome, was the street where Romulus and Tatius (the Sabine) swore mutual alliance. It does not mean the “holy street,” but the “street of the oath.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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