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[Carlton Bach]

Interesting and thanks for the detailed response. (Guess it is just one of those many "factoids" that get quoted endlessly!)

In that case does this mean that returning legions (preparing for a trumph for example), would have to camp outside the pomerium and then leave all their armour etc. there when entering the city/crossing the pomerium? Just how close to the city would this have been?

I'm guessing wherever practical, but the Campus Martius offers itself. It was outside the pomerium, the centuriate assembly met there and it has traditional associations with martial virtue.

Mind you, a returning general was not normally supposed to bring his army into Italy without the Senate's permission.