 | Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1831 - 410 pagine
...city of Rome from the rage of fire, this was the worst, the most violent, and destructive. The flame broke out in that part of the circus which adjoins...the flames. A dreadful conflagration followed. The level parts of the city were destroyed. The fire communicated to the higher buildings, and, again laying... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1842 - 758 pagine
...part of the circus which adjoins, on one side, to mount Palatine, and, on the other, to mount (»¡us. It caught a number of shops stored with combustible goods, and, gathering furce from the winds, spread with rapidity from one end of the circus to the other. Neither the thick... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pagine
...within the walls of Rome as in the conflagration which ' then commenced. " The flame," says Tacitus, " broke out in that part of the circus which adjoins...rapidity from one end of the circus to the other." Thence it hurried in every direction with a force and manner not unlike the progress of our modern... | |
 | Gordon Jennings Laing - 1903 - 528 pagine
...that part of the circus which adjoins on one side the Palatine hill, and on the other the Caelian. It caught a number of shops stored with combustible...the flames. A dreadful conflagration followed. The level parts of the city were destroyed. The fire reached the higher buildings, and again laying hold... | |
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The flame broke out in that part of the circus which adjoins, on one side, to Mount Palatine, and, on the other, to Mount Caelius. It caught a number of shops stored with combustible goods, and, gathering force from the winds, spread with rapidity from... 