The Archæology of Rome, Parte 8J. Parker and Company, 1876 |
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Pagina iv
... stream of water four 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 ...
... stream of water four 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 ...
Pagina vi
... streams , the Aqua Crabra and the Marrana , the water of which never fails ; and the manner in which the tunnel of the Aqua Julia has been used again in the twelfth century , are the most curious and interesting . This had hitherto ...
... streams , the Aqua Crabra and the Marrana , the water of which never fails ; and the manner in which the tunnel of the Aqua Julia has been used again in the twelfth century , are the most curious and interesting . This had hitherto ...
Pagina xi
... stream • • Specus choked up with stalactite , and cascades petrified The same water used for the Aqua Felice , but the petrifying stream excluded . ib . ib . 87 ib . 70 of Frontinus 71 Tables of Dates , Names , Levels , Length of ...
... stream • • Specus choked up with stalactite , and cascades petrified The same water used for the Aqua Felice , but the petrifying stream excluded . ib . ib . 87 ib . 70 of Frontinus 71 Tables of Dates , Names , Levels , Length of ...
Pagina xii
... streams united are brought into Rome in the bed of the River Almo ΙΟΙ ib . 96 Sources of the Aqua Crabra , near Rocca di Papa . ib . Those of the Marrana near Ma- rino ib . . ib . ib . Probably a branch from the great aqueducts near the ...
... streams united are brought into Rome in the bed of the River Almo ΙΟΙ ib . 96 Sources of the Aqua Crabra , near Rocca di Papa . ib . Those of the Marrana near Ma- rino ib . . ib . ib . Probably a branch from the great aqueducts near the ...
Pagina xiii
... stream is divided at a loch between Roma Vecchia and the Torre Fiscale . Source under La Colonna Reservoir made under Gregory XIII . , A.D. 1572-1585 . The arcade and specus were made under Sixtus V. , but other reser- voirs were not ...
... stream is divided at a loch between Roma Vecchia and the Torre Fiscale . Source under La Colonna Reservoir made under Gregory XIII . , A.D. 1572-1585 . The arcade and specus were made under Sixtus V. , but other reser- voirs were not ...
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 hill 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
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...