Remarks on the Antiquities of Rome and Its Environs: Being a Classical and Topographical Survey of the Ruins of that Celebrated CityW. Bulmer and Company, 1812 - 478 Seiten |
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... ancient power and splendour . It is indeed to be re- gretted , that they are daily diminishing . But how much do we owe to the industry of many ingenious artists , who have measured and delineated these ruins , models of perfection in ...
... ancient power and splendour . It is indeed to be re- gretted , that they are daily diminishing . But how much do we owe to the industry of many ingenious artists , who have measured and delineated these ruins , models of perfection in ...
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... ancients used chimneys , or only heated their rooms with coals on bra- siers , as is still common in most parts of Italy ... ancient authors . - Philocleon , in the comedy of the Wasps of Aristophanes , act 1. sc . 2 , hid him- self in a ...
... ancients used chimneys , or only heated their rooms with coals on bra- siers , as is still common in most parts of Italy ... ancient authors . - Philocleon , in the comedy of the Wasps of Aristophanes , act 1. sc . 2 , hid him- self in a ...
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... ANCIENT ROME . THE GATES AND ENVIRONS . I. PORTA DEL POPOLO . WHETHER this gate has been named from the adjacent church of the Madonna del Popolo , or the church from the gate , is uncertain . Perhaps they were both thus named from a ...
... ANCIENT ROME . THE GATES AND ENVIRONS . I. PORTA DEL POPOLO . WHETHER this gate has been named from the adjacent church of the Madonna del Popolo , or the church from the gate , is uncertain . Perhaps they were both thus named from a ...
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... ancient custom to throw a man from off this bridge into the Tyber , as a sacrifice to Saturn . It was here that the ambassadors of the Allobroges , in con- cert with Cicero , were stopped , and their papers seized , which fully ...
... ancient custom to throw a man from off this bridge into the Tyber , as a sacrifice to Saturn . It was here that the ambassadors of the Allobroges , in con- cert with Cicero , were stopped , and their papers seized , which fully ...
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... ancient walls , and the fields covered with broken bricks , pieces of columns , and fragments of buildings , he has traced here * See his learned dissertation , entitled , " Il Veio illustrato . " - Roma , 1768 . 8vo . + Hist . Rom . 1 ...
... ancient walls , and the fields covered with broken bricks , pieces of columns , and fragments of buildings , he has traced here * See his learned dissertation , entitled , " Il Veio illustrato . " - Roma , 1768 . 8vo . + Hist . Rom . 1 ...
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Seite 419 - Mandela bibit, rugosus frigore pagus, 105 quid sentire putas? quid credis, amice, precari? sit mihi quod nunc est, etiam minus, et mihi vivam quod superest aevi, si quid superesse volunt di ; sit bona librorum et provisae frugis in annum copia, neu fluitem dubiae spe pendulus horae.
Seite 421 - Aura feret geminusque Pollux. XXX. EXEOI monumentum aere perennius Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum. Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam : usque ego postera Crescam laude recens dum Capitolium Scandet cum tacita virgine pontifex.
Seite 233 - Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep : And to the murmur of these waters sleep : Ah spare my slumbers, gently tread the cave, And drink in silence, or in silence lave.
Seite 436 - Qui, quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non, Plenius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore dicit.
Seite 7 - Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera, Credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, Orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus Describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent; Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento : Hae tibi erunt artes, pacisque imponere morem, Parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.
Seite 390 - Nee ripas datur horrendas et rauca fluenta transportare prius quam sedibus ossa quierunt. Centum errant annos volitantque haec litora circum ; turn demum admissi stagna exoptata revisunt.
Seite 305 - ... hoc, ubi nunc fora sunt, udae tenuere paludes ; amne redundatis fossa madebat aquis. Curtius ille lacus, siccas qui sustinet aras, nunc solida est tellus, sed lacus ante fuit.
Seite 103 - ... nonne vides, cum praecipiti certamine campum corripuere, ruuntque effusi carcere currus, cum spes adrectae iuvenum, exsultantiaque haurit 105 corda pavor pulsans? illi instant verbere torto et proni dant lora...
Seite 37 - Coepi egomet mecum sic cogitare: 'Hem! nos homunculi indignamur, si quis nostrum interiit aut occisus est, quorum vita brevior esse debet, cum uno loco tot oppidum cadavera proiecta iacent? Visne tu te, Servi, cohibere et meminisse hominem te esse natum?
Seite 295 - This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquished him. Then burst his mighty heart; And in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statue (Which all the while ran blood) great Caesar fell.