The Primitive Fortifications of the City of Rome: And Other Buildings of the Time of the KingsJ. Parker and Company, 1878 - 232 pagine |
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Pagina xiii
... fortress of moderate extent ; a low hill surrounded by swamps on all sides is a very strong natural position , and having a navigable river near to it to secure provisions was a great advantage . At the north end of this hill , the ...
... fortress of moderate extent ; a low hill surrounded by swamps on all sides is a very strong natural position , and having a navigable river near to it to secure provisions was a great advantage . At the north end of this hill , the ...
Pagina xiv
... fortress , almost impreg- nable , especially when the Velia , which from the nature of the ground would have been the weakest point , was made a very strong one by cutting off this promontory from the Esquiline Hill by a very wide and ...
... fortress , almost impreg- nable , especially when the Velia , which from the nature of the ground would have been the weakest point , was made a very strong one by cutting off this promontory from the Esquiline Hill by a very wide and ...
Pagina xv
... fortress at its strongest point ( the Velia ) with the Capitoline proper at the east end . Advantage was taken of this lofty curtain - wall by the engineers of Augustus , to make use of it as a sort of enclosure on one side of his Forum ...
... fortress at its strongest point ( the Velia ) with the Capitoline proper at the east end . Advantage was taken of this lofty curtain - wall by the engineers of Augustus , to make use of it as a sort of enclosure on one side of his Forum ...
Pagina xvii
... fortress on the hill of Saturn was rather too close to the opposite corner of Roma Quad- rata . The bastions were only carried about 20 ft . above the level . on which they stand , when the work was suddenly suspended by the ...
... fortress on the hill of Saturn was rather too close to the opposite corner of Roma Quad- rata . The bastions were only carried about 20 ft . above the level . on which they stand , when the work was suddenly suspended by the ...
Pagina 2
... fortress ; but they were not included in the boundary of the City until the time of Servius Tullius . Each of these separate fortresses can be traced by existing remains of tufa walls of that early period . On the Aventine , where the ...
... fortress ; but they were not included in the boundary of the City until the time of Servius Tullius . Each of these separate fortresses can be traced by existing remains of tufa walls of that early period . On the Aventine , where the ...
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Parole e frasi comuni
ædes Ærarium afterwards agger of Servius ancient Appia aqueduct arcade Arch Augustus Aventine bank building built Cæsar called Capitol Capitoline Hill Capitolium Carmentalis cave church Clivus Cloaca Maxima Cœlian construction corner Dionys Dionysius early east end eastern side Empire Esquiline evidently excavations feet Festus fortress Forum of Augustus Forum Romanum foss foss-way gate Græcostasis ground hill of Saturn Ibid Kings Lateran Livii Hist Livy Lupercal Mamertine Prison mentioned modern north end original outer palace Palatine Hill passage period Photographs pomarium Porta Capena Porta Carmentalis Porta Collina porticus PRIMITIVE FORTIFICATIONS prison probably quæ Quirinal quod rebuilt remains road Roma Quadrata Romans Romulus Sabines scarped cliffs Senaculum Senate-house Servius Tullius shewn shews slope stone Sylla Tabularium Tacitus Tarpeian rock Tarquinius temple of Concord temple of Jupiter temple of Saturn Thermæ Tiber tower tufa tufa wall upper Urbis valley Varro Velia Viminal visible Wall of Rome
Brani popolari
Pagina 16 - And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
Pagina 16 - For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude ; for both they and their camels were without number : and they entered into the land to destroy it.
Pagina 501 - A CONCISE GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN GRECIAN, ROMAN, ITALIAN, AND GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE.
Pagina 16 - Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in ; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.
Pagina 16 - For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
Pagina 188 - The parents recognised the boy when he was first found, Captain Nicholetts believes ; but when they found him to be so stupid and insensible, they left him to subsist upon charity. They have now left Hasunpoor, and the age of the boy when carried off cannot be ascertained ; but he was to all appearance about nine or ten years of age when found, and he lived about three years afterwards. He used signs when he wanted anything, and very few of them except when hungry, and he then pointed to his mouth....