A Manual of Roman AntiquitiesHarper & brothers, 1851 - 451 pagine |
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Charles Anthon. Entered , according to Act of Congress , in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty - one , by HARPER & BROTHERS , in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York . NEW YORK 1863 то ...
Charles Anthon. Entered , according to Act of Congress , in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty - one , by HARPER & BROTHERS , in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York . NEW YORK 1863 то ...
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... thousand years without material injury . The Roman engineers were very particular in securing a firm bottom , which was done , when necessary , by ramming the ground with small stones , fragments of brick , & c . On this carefully ...
... thousand years without material injury . The Roman engineers were very particular in securing a firm bottom , which was done , when necessary , by ramming the ground with small stones , fragments of brick , & c . On this carefully ...
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... thousand talents . In the Capitol were kept the Sibylline books . Here the consuls , upon entering on their office , offered sacrifice and took the vows , and hither the victorious general , who entered the city in tri- umph , was ...
... thousand talents . In the Capitol were kept the Sibylline books . Here the consuls , upon entering on their office , offered sacrifice and took the vows , and hither the victorious general , who entered the city in tri- umph , was ...
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... thousand spectators . Gladiatorial games were exhibited in the am- phitheatres , the largest of which was the Colosseum , built by Ves- pasian , and capable of holding eighty - seven thousand spectators . An account of it will be given ...
... thousand spectators . Gladiatorial games were exhibited in the am- phitheatres , the largest of which was the Colosseum , built by Ves- pasian , and capable of holding eighty - seven thousand spectators . An account of it will be given ...
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... thousand seven hundred and ten and a half passus ) , of which only seven thousand four hundred and sixty - three passus were above ground , namely , five hundred and twenty - eight on solid substruc- tions , and six thousand nine ...
... thousand seven hundred and ten and a half passus ) , of which only seven thousand four hundred and sixty - three passus were above ground , namely , five hundred and twenty - eight on solid substruc- tions , and six thousand nine ...
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Pagina 134 - MANCIPI were those things which might be sold and alienated, or the property of them transferred from, one person to another, by a certain rite used among Roman citizens only; so that the purchaser might take them as it were with his hand (manu caperet); whence he was called MANCEPS, and the things res MANCIPI, vel Mancupi, contracted for Mancipii.
Pagina 341 - Hades, and the body was laid out on a couch in the vestibule of the house, with its feet towards the door, and dressed in the best robe which the deceased had worn when alive. Ordinary citizens were dressed in a white toga, and magistrates in their official robes. If the deceased had received a crown while alive as a reward for his bravery, it was now placed on his head ; and the couch on which he was laid was sometimes covered with leaves and flowers.
Pagina 195 - It was requisite that those who offered sacrifices should come chaste and pure ; that they should bathe themselves ; be dressed in white robes, and crowned with the leaves of that tree, which was thought most acceptable to the god whom they worshipped. Sometimes also they put on the garb of suppliants, with dishevelled hair, loose robes, and barefooted.
Pagina 452 - Greek Reader. Principally from the German of Jacobs. With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, a Metrical Index to Homer and Anacreon, and a copious Lexicon. 12mo, Sheep extra, $1 00.
Pagina 17 - But the temper, as well as knowledge, of a modern historian, require a more sober and accurate language. He may impress a juster image of the greatness of Rome, by observing that the empire was above two thousand miles in breadth, from the wall of Antoninus and the northern limits of Dacia, to Mount Atlas and the tropic of Cancer; that it extended in length more than three thousand miles from the Western Ocean to the Euphrates; that it was situated in the finest part of the Temperate Zone, between...
Pagina 382 - It was made of soot in various ways, with burned resin or pitch : and for this purpose," he adds, " they have built furnaces, which do not allow the smoke to escape. The kind most commended is made in this way from pine-wood : It is mixed with soot from the furnaces or baths (that is, the lypocausts of the baths: md. BATH) ; and this they use ad volumina scribenda. Some also make a kind of ink by boiling and straining the lees of wine,
Pagina 453 - Latin Grammar, Part I. Containing the most important Parts of the Grammar of the Latin Language, together with appropriate Exercises in the translating and writing of Latin.