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"Caput mundi" nuncupari potest urbs quae locum maximi momenti in orbe terrarum habeat. Inter quas urbes fuerunt Roma, Hierosolyma, Constantinopolis.
Cf. in Amoribus Ovidii "caput orbis" (I 15, 26). Temporibus recentioribus nonnunquam versus incerti originis invenitur "Roma caput mundi regit orbis frena rotundi" (vel "Aurea Roma caput mundi / Regit orbis frena rotundi").[1]
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