A Manual of Roman AntiquitiesC. Griffin, 1876 - 514 pagine |
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Pagina 364 - Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March the year following, and almost immediately after the pontifices fell into an error, and inserted a day every third year, instead of every fourth. This was continued for thirtysix years, in the course of which twelve days were added, instead of nine, when the mistake was rectified by Augustus, who gave orders that the insertion of the ' bissextum ' should be omitted for twelve years, i Vit. Rom. 1 2. * Observe also Caes. BC 1. 6 'Is dies erat ante diem...
Pagina 230 - ... those purposes for which iron of the first quality is indispensable, such as the manufacture of steel. The country best situated for the success of this industrial revolution, is, undoubtedly, the United States of America. For example, wood is found there in great quantities, and may, in some places, be obtained at a very low price; on the other hand, the beds of...
Pagina 54 - Quod si quis diligentius aestimaverit aquarum abundantiam in publico, balineis, piscinis, domibus, euripis, hortis suburbanis, villi$, tpatioque advenientis exstructos arcus, mottles perfossos, convalles aequatas, fatebittir nihil magis mirandum fuisse in tola orbe terrarum.
Pagina 368 - ... moon, and many hypotheses have been formed with regard to its origin and import. By far the most ingenious and profound of these, so ingenious indeed that it almost carries conviction, is the theory propounded by Niebuhr. He supposes it to have been employed along with a lunar year for the purpose of making the solar and lunar years coincide at certain fixed epochs. He moreover finds traces of it in history at a period long after it is generally believed to have fallen into disuse, and by its...
Pagina 371 - Greeks contained 3d4 days only, while their own had 355, and hence it followed that in the cycle of eight years there was an excess of eight days. To remedy this a new cycle was invented of twenty-four years, and in the last eight years of this twenty-four days were omitted, sixty only being intercalated instead of 90, thus compensating for the excess which would have taken place in the whole period had the full number been employed. At what time this (or any other) system of intercalation was brought...
Pagina 153 - Society had increased to such an extent that it was found necessary to separate the Flowers from the Plants, and appoint a separate Committee to care for each.
Pagina 11 - ... intelligence and perseverance. Valentin arrived at the result, that this interchange of gases corresponds perfectly with the law of the diffusion of gases established by Graham, and that consequently the oxygen and carbonic acid are interchanged in an inverse ratio to the square roots of their densities. As it does not fall within the limits of the present work to enter into more diffuse theoretical expositions, we will here content ourselves with briefly indicating the difficulties which oppose...
Pagina 426 - Perfumes are mingled with the ashes. The urn is then carried to the tomb, and deposited in the niche prepared for it. All round the walls you see similar urns, each in its own niche, each inscribed with a simple memento, like the inscriptions on our tombstones. All...
Pagina 367 - Tempora si fastosque velis evolvere mundi.' In the year 1547 several fragments of marble tablets were dug up at Rome, which were found to contain a list of Consuls, Dictators, Censors, &c. from the foundation of the city until the age of Augustus. These were collected and adjusted as far as possible, and deposited by Cardinal Alexander Farnese in the Capitol, from which circumstance they have been styled the 'Fasti Capitolini,' and similar collections derived from different sources have received...
Pagina 365 - ... because, according to the Roman method of computation, they recurred every ninth day, - nono quoque die.' In the year 98 BC a law was passed by the Consuls Q. Caecilius Metellus and T. Didius, thence called ' Lex Caecilia Didia,' which, among other provisions, enacted that every bill should be exhibited for the inspection of the people for three market days before it was submitted to the Comitia. This space of time, which could not be less than seventeen days, was from that time forward called...