The Archæology of Rome, Parte 8J. Parker and Company, 1876 |
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Pagina iii
... feet high ; to the right , the Marcian , thirty feet high . For the last half - mile , the Claudian arcade was also the boundary of the palace gardens of the Sessorium , the residence first of the Kings and afterwards of one branch of ...
... feet high ; to the right , the Marcian , thirty feet high . For the last half - mile , the Claudian arcade was also the boundary of the palace gardens of the Sessorium , the residence first of the Kings and afterwards of one branch of ...
Pagina iv
... feet deep and two feet wide , running at the rate of five or six miles an hour , if not more . The direct line went on over the Palatine to the Capitol , passing over the Forum Romanum on the bridge of Caligula , of which , also , some ...
... feet deep and two feet wide , running at the rate of five or six miles an hour , if not more . The direct line went on over the Palatine to the Capitol , passing over the Forum Romanum on the bridge of Caligula , of which , also , some ...
Pagina 6
... feet with broken stone , it cannot be seen . Some of the chambers of this ancient quarry have been used as a burying - place , probably for the neighbouring town of Collatia . The graves are cut out in the side of the walls , like the ...
... feet with broken stone , it cannot be seen . Some of the chambers of this ancient quarry have been used as a burying - place , probably for the neighbouring town of Collatia . The graves are cut out in the side of the walls , like the ...
Pagina 7
... feet on either side of the aqueducts ; thus an open space was probably existing at the time when Nero wished to carry water to his magnificent reservoir at the north - western end of the Coelian , and of this he availed himself in ...
... feet on either side of the aqueducts ; thus an open space was probably existing at the time when Nero wished to carry water to his magnificent reservoir at the north - western end of the Coelian , and of this he availed himself in ...
Pagina 9
... feet high and two feet wide , and it is filled up to nearly half its height by solid clay , evidently the deposit left by the water . The old specus , long after it had been out of use , seems to have been employed by the quarrymen as ...
... feet high and two feet wide , and it is filled up to nearly half its height by solid clay , evidently the deposit left by the water . The old specus , long after it had been out of use , seems to have been employed by the quarrymen as ...
Parole e frasi comuni
agger Alexander Severus Alsietina ancient angle Anio Novus Anio Vetus Appia Nova Aqua Appia Aqua Felice Aqua Marcia aque aqueduct Arch of Dolabella arches of Nero Augustus Aventine bank branch brick bridge built called carried castella castellum aquæ cave Claudia and Anio Claudian arcade cliff Coelian conduit enters Rome excavations foss fountain Frontinus garden gate ground Hadrian inscription junction Lacus lake large reservoir Latina loch Lorenzo Marcian Marcian arcade Marrana miles from Rome Minerva Medica Nymphæum old specus Palatine passes piers piscina PLATE Porta Capena Porta Furba Porta Maggiore probably quarry remains river Almo river Anio road rock Rome Sabatina seen Servius Tullius Sessorian Sessorium shewn shews side Spes springs stone stream Subiaco subterranean supply temple Tepula Thermæ third century Tiber Tivoli Torre Fiscale tower traced Trajan tufa tunnel underground valley Via Appia Via Latina Villa Virgo visible Wall of Aurelian Wall of Rome
Brani popolari
Pagina 91 - Roman marriages at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century were childless.
Pagina 129 - ... the neighbourhood of Newmarket, and in so doing several times crossed and recrossed the road leading to that village. It seemed to me that there had once been a wide trackway along the course of the dyke, and that, as land became valuable, and the road was narrowed, the proprietors inclosed the dyke sometimes on one side of the road, and sometimes on the other. The earthwork was much degraded, and indeed levelled, for considerable distances ; but all the peasantry we met with knew its course,...
Pagina 71 - Q -p. represent the four chambers. The channel of the aqueduct coming from the east, at a tolerably high level enters the chamber B. Thence the water passed (possibly over a large waste pipe) into the chamber beneath, D. Between D and C there were communications through the wall (possibly provided with fine grating). Through the roof of C there was a hole, and the water passed upwards, of course finding the same level in A as in B, whence it was carried off into another stream. By the aid of sluice...
Pagina 30 - Tuditanus, reduced by force the town of Aternum, took above seven thousand prisoners, and a considerable quantity of brass and silver coin. At Rome a dreadful fire raged during two nights and one day: every thing between the Salinae and the Carmental gate was levelled to the ground, as were the jEquimaelium and the Jugarian street.
Pagina 112 - Ipsos crediderim sic habitare deos. Quid loquar aerio pendentes fornice rivos, Qua vix imbriferas tolleret Iris aquas...
Pagina 22 - ... and of the tomb of Eurysaces the baker there discovered, just outside of the gate, gives a plan in which he inserts a temple just inside the gate on the southern side, which he calls the Temple of Spes...