The Topography and Antiquities of Rome: Including Recent Discoveries Made about the Forum and the Via Sacra, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Greene, 1831 - 400 pagine |
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Pagina v
... things as they saw them , without offer- ing their own conjectures ; and thus , many ruins that have long since disappeared , are preserved in their notices and descriptions . On the other hand , as they reasoned but little upon the ...
... things as they saw them , without offer- ing their own conjectures ; and thus , many ruins that have long since disappeared , are preserved in their notices and descriptions . On the other hand , as they reasoned but little upon the ...
Pagina xi
... thing that might have the appearance of being too learned for an ordinary reader has been kept as clear of the text as pos- sible , and will stand apart for the use of those only who may wish to study the ruins of Rome more critically ...
... thing that might have the appearance of being too learned for an ordinary reader has been kept as clear of the text as pos- sible , and will stand apart for the use of those only who may wish to study the ruins of Rome more critically ...
Pagina xii
... things like these the public have little concern . In the present day , when both men and their works stand or fall by their own merit , it would be equally superfluous in an author to magnify the difficulties and import- ance of his ...
... things like these the public have little concern . In the present day , when both men and their works stand or fall by their own merit , it would be equally superfluous in an author to magnify the difficulties and import- ance of his ...
Pagina 17
... things are more charming in the page of Livy , or in the lays of Virgil.44 The founder of Rome " continued along the roots of the Palatine hill to the altar of Consus . ' 99 43 Virgil seems to place the great altar of Hercules so that ...
... things are more charming in the page of Livy , or in the lays of Virgil.44 The founder of Rome " continued along the roots of the Palatine hill to the altar of Consus . ' 99 43 Virgil seems to place the great altar of Hercules so that ...
Pagina 48
... things , the limits we have assigned to the old city , on the south - east side , will at least appear to carry an air of probability . From the Porta Cælimontana we proceed 25 with- * See Note H. 25 We might , indeed , here stay to ...
... things , the limits we have assigned to the old city , on the south - east side , will at least appear to carry an air of probability . From the Porta Cælimontana we proceed 25 with- * See Note H. 25 We might , indeed , here stay to ...
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Pagina 327 - Where Rome embraced her heroes ? where the steep Tarpeian ? fittest goal of Treason's race, The promontory whence the Traitor's Leap Cured all ambition. Did the Conquerors heap Their spoils here ? Yes ; and in yon field below, A thousand years of silenced factions sleep — The Forum, where the immortal accents glow, And still the eloquent air breathes— burns with Cicero ! CXIII.
Pagina 454 - Regum in eo ambitio vel gloria varie vulgata: sed initium condendi, et quod pomerium Romulus posuerit, noscere baud absurdum reor. Igitur a foro boario, ubi aereum tauri simulacrum aspicimus, quia id genus animalium aratro subditur, sulcus designandi oppidi coeptus, ut magnam Herculis aram amplecteretur ; inde certis spatiis interiecti lapides per ima montis Palatini ad aram Consi, mox curias veteres, turn ad sacellum Larum, inde forum Romanum ; forumque1 et Capitolium non a Romulo, sed a Tito Tatio...
Pagina 467 - Sed dum tota domus raeda componitur una, 10 substitit ad veteres arcus madidamque Capenam. hic, ubi nocturnae Numa constituebat amicae, nunc sacri fontis nemus et delubra locantur ludaeis, quorum cophinus faenumque supellex (omnis enim populo mercedem pendere iussa est 15 arbor et eiectis mendicat silva Camenis). in vallem Egeriae descendimus et speluncas dissimiles veris.
Pagina 131 - Lucus erat, quem medium ex opaco specu fons perenni rigabat aqua. Quo quia se persaepe Numa sine arbitris velut ad congressum deae inferebat, Camenis eum lucum sacravit, quod earum ibi concilia cum coniuge sua Egeria essent.
Pagina 454 - ... aspicimus, quia id genus animalium aratro subditur, sulcus designandi oppidi coeptus, ut magnam Herculis aram amplecteretur; inde certis spatiis interiecti lapides per ima montis Palatini ad aram Consi, mox curias ueteres, turn ad sacellum Larum. [2] forumque Romanum et Capitolium non a Romulo, sed a Tito Tatio additum urbi credidere.
Pagina 247 - ... et volgo faciunt id lutea russaque vela et ferrugina, cum magnis intenta theatris per malos volgata trabesque trementia flutant; namque ibi consessum caveai supter et omnem scaenai speciem patrum matrumque deorsum 8o inficiunt coguntque suo fluitarc colore.
Pagina 69 - Tum primum e campo comitia ad patres translata sunt: nam ad eam diem, etsi potissima arbitrio principis, quaedam tamen studiis tribuum fiebant. neque populus ademptum ius questus est nisi inani rumore...
Pagina 457 - Esquilina introisset, homo promptus lacessivit; quasi vero id aut ego scire debuerim aut vestrum quispiam audierit aut ad rem pertineat, qua tu porta introieris, modo ne triumphali, quae porta Macedonicis semper consulibus ante te patuit; tu inventus es, qui consular!
Pagina 93 - Appius caused the materials to be fetched from a great distance, so as to have all the stones hard and of the nature of millstones, such as are not to be found in this part of the country. Having ordered this material to be smoothed and polished, the stones were cut in corresponding angles, so as to fit together...
Pagina 95 - Ipsum cremare apud Romanos non fuit veteris instituti: terra condebantur. at postquam longinquis bellis obrutos erui cognovere, tune institutum. et tarnen multae familiae priscos servavere ritus, sicut in Cornelia nemo ante Sullam dictatorem traditur crematus, idque voluisse veritum talionem eruto C.