 | Andrew Lumisden - 1812 - 614 pagine
...Hadrian brought it from Pergamus, and that it was the work of Sosus, which Pliny -f thus describes — " mirabilis ibi columba bibens, et aquam umbra capitis...apricantur aliae scabentes sese in canthari labro." Here too was found the elegant medallion of Parian marble, an half length figure in profile, of Antinous,... | |
 | Pliny (the Elder.) - 1830 - 352 pagine
...purgamenta coenae in pavimento, quaeque everri soient, veluti relicta , fecerat parvie e testulis tinctisque in varios colores. Mirabilis ibi columba bibens ,...Apricantur aliae scabentes sese in canthari labro. LXI. Pavimenta credo primum facta, quae nunc vocamus barbárica, atque subtegulanea, in Italia fistucis... | |
 | Pliny (the Elder.) - 1831 - 806 pagine
...HIST. cœnae in pavimento, quaeque everri soient, veluti relicta4, fecerat parvis e testulis tinctisque in varios colores. Mirabilis ibi columba bibens, et...capitis infuscans. Apricantur aliae scabentes sese in cantbari labro. LXI. Pavimenta credo primum facta quae nunc vocamus barbárica , atque subtegulanea... | |
 | Pliny (the Elder.) - 1831 - 742 pagine
...cœnœ in pavimento, quœque everri soient, veluti relicta*, fecerat parvis e testtilis ti'nctisque in varios colores. Mirabilis ibi columba bibens, et...umbra capitis infuscans. Apricantur aliae scabentes «ese5 in canthari labro. LXI. Pavimenta credo primuní facta quœ nunc vocainiis barbárica , atque... | |
 | 1831
...cœnrc in pavimento , quœque everri soient, veluti relicta4, fccern t parvis e testulis tinctisque in varios colores. Mirabilis ibi columba bibens, et aquam umbra capitis infuscans. Apricantur alia? scabentes sese in canthari labro. LX1. Pavimenta credo primum facta quœ nunc vocamtis barbárica... | |
 | Pliny (the Elder.) - 1833 - 512 pagine
...pavimento, quaeque verri soient , velut relicta , fecerat parvis e tesserulis tinctisque in varies colores. Mirabilis ibi columba bibens, et aquam umbra...Apricantur aliae scabentes sese in canthari labro. Quando primum pavimentum Romse. LXI. Pavimenta credo primum facta, quœ nunc vocamus barbarica, atque... | |
 | 1833 - 498 pagine
...cœnae in pavimento, quaeque verri soient , velut relicta , fecerat parvis e tesserulis tinctisque in varios colores. Mirabilis ibi columba bibens ,...umbra capitis infuscans. Apricantur aliae scabentes seso in canthari labro. Quando primum paviraentum Romae. LXI. Pavimenta credo primum facta , quae nunc... | |
 | George William D. Evans - 1835 - 496 pagine
...vertentia partes, Servet ut in ternas compita secta vias. — OVID. FAST.i. 142. t Mirabilis ibi (Pergamis) columba bibens, et aquam umbra capitis infuscans. Apricantur aliae scabentes sese in canthari labro. (Lib. xxxv. c. 25.) the work only shews how greatly the ancients are now excelled in the art of tesselation.... | |
 | William Adam - 1843 - 488 pagine
...and that at the Capitol is generally supposed to be the same. We here give Pliny's description : — Mirabilis, ibi Columba bibens et aquam umbra, Capitis...apricantur aliae scabentes sese in canthari labro Plin. Lib. xxxv. cap. x. The Duke of Devonshire has a fine copy of this amongst the enamels in the... | |
 | Sir George Head - 1849 - 486 pagine
...original, cannot fail to be recognised in the brief but peculiarly graphic description of Pliny : — " Mirabilis ibi columba bibens, et aquam umbra capitis...Apricantur aliae scabentes sese in canthari labro."— Nat. Hist., lib. 36, cap. 60. The second chamber, called the CHAMRER OF THE CAPITOLINE VENUS, contains... | |
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Pergami stravit quem vocant asaroton oecon, quoniam purgamenta cenae in pavimentis quaeque everri solent velut relicta fecerat parvis e tessellis tinctisque in varios colores. mirabilis ibi columba bibens et aquam umbra capitis infuscans; apricantur aliae... 
