Roman Antiquities and Ancient Mythology for Classical SchoolsLincoln and Edmands, 1831 - 161 pagine |
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Achilles afterwards altar ancient Apollo arms attended Augeas Bacchus body brass brother called celebrated celestial Ceres CHAPTER chariot comitia consuls crowned daughter death decemviri decree deity described Diāna distinguished divine dress earth Egyptians emperor erected Esculapius Eurystheus fable father Faunus feet fire gave Give an account goddess gods golden Greeks head heaven hell Hercules Homer honor horses hundred images infernal Jason Julius Cæsar Juno Jupiter killed king lictors magistrates Melicertes Mercury Minerva Minos Mount Muses Neptune Nymphs occasioned Oceanus offered opinion Orestes Orpheus Osiris Ovid Patricians Perseus person Phlegyas pillars Plebeians Pluto Plutus poets porticos prænomen prætor presided priests Proserpine punishment represented Rhadamanthus Roman citizens Roman forum Rome sacred sacrifices Saturn Satyrs sceptre Senate serpent Sicily signifying Sirens slaves sometimes supposed Tarquin Tartarus Tartessus temple Thessaly Troy Ulysses usually Venus Vesta victory Virgil Vulcan whence wife worship
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Pagina 17 - Anciently this right of images was peculiar to the patricians ; but afterwards the plebeians also acquired it, when admitted to curule offices. Those who were the first of their family that had raised themselves to any curule office, were called Homines NOVI, new men or upstarts.
Pagina 14 - Sibylline books consulted, without their order. — 2. The Senate had the direction of the treasury, and distributed the public money at pleasure. They appointed stipends to their generals and officers, and provisions and clothing for their armies.
Pagina 66 - THE Romans paid the greatest attention to funeral rites, because they believed that the souls of the unburied were not admitted into the abodes of the dead, or, at least, wandered a hundred years along the river Styx, before they were allowed to cross it; for which reason, if the bodies of their friends could not be found, they erected to them an empty tomb*, (TUMULUS INANIS, кенотафч»*, Cenotaphium,) at which they performed the usual solemnities, Virg.
Pagina 15 - But the power of the senate was chiefly conspicuous in civil dissensions or dangerous tumults within the city, in which that solemn decree used to be passed, " That " the consuls should take care that the republic should receive " no harm ;" Ut consules darent operam, ne quid detrimenti respublica caperet.
Pagina 16 - It was the part of the Patron to advise and to defend his client, to assist him with his interest and substance, in short to do every thing for him that a parent uses to do for his children.
Pagina 12 - Let those who are of such an opinion pass over to that side ; those who think differently, to this.
Pagina 16 - These images were nothing else but the busts or the effigies of persons down to the shoulders, made of wax and painted ; which they used to place in the courts of their houses...
Pagina 15 - Black buskins reaching to the middle of the leg, with the letter C in silver on the top of the foot.10 Hence calceos mutare, to become a senator.11 3.
Pagina 36 - Tarquin's refusal to give her the price which she asked, she went away, and burnt three of them. Returning soon after, she sought the same price for the remaining six.
Pagina 20 - By the laws of the twelve tables it was ordained, that insolvent debtors should be given up to their creditors to be bound in fetters and cords...