A Day in Ancient Rome: Being a Revision of Lohr's "Aus Dem Alten Rom" : with Numerous IllustrationsChautauqua Press, 1885 - 96 oldal Describes life in Rome and the splendors of Roman civilization. |
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adorned ancient ARCH OF AUGUSTUS ARCH OF TITUS Atrium Basilica Julia building built Cæsar Caligula called Campus Martius Capitol CAPITOLINE HILL Caracalla Carcer Castor and Pollux chambers Cicero circus citadel Claudius columns court crowd Domitian Domus Gelotiana emperor entered entrance EQUESTRIAN STATUE erected feet Flavian foundation friends front gate gods greet guards guests hall hastens honor Horace house of Livia imperial interior Julius Cæsar Latin lived lofty look marble Marcus MAXIMUS Nero paedagogium Palace of Augustus Palatine Hill palatium PANTHEON passage pillars poet Porta portico prison reign restored ROMA Roman Rome rooms Rostra rows ruins Sacra Sacred Street servants SHUMWAY side so-called soldiers splendor square Stadium stairway stand steps stone summit Tabularium Temple of Castor Temple of Jupiter Temple of Saturn TEMPLE OF VESPASIAN Temple of Vesta thee thou Tiber Tiberius to-day triumphal Velabrum Via Sacra victory Villa Virginia Vitellius walls worshipped
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7. oldal - Caesar; so were you: We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he : For once, upon a raw and gusty day, The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores, Caesar said to me, 'Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point?
68. oldal - It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away.
46. oldal - This day, by Lake Regillus, Under the Porcian height, All in the lands of Tusculum Was fought a glorious fight. To-morrow your Dictator Shall bring in triumph home 73o The spoils of thirty cities To deck the shrines of Rome !
42. oldal - And then his eyes grew very dim, and his throat began to swell, And in a hoarse, changed voice he spake, " Farewell, sweet child, farewell ! Oh ! how I loved my darling ! Though stern I sometimes be, To thee thou know'st I was not so. Who could be so to thee?
31. oldal - Tarpeian? fittest goal of Treason's race, The promontory whence the Traitor's leap Cured all ambition. Did the conquerors heap Their spoils here? Yes; and in yon field below, A thousand years of silenced factions sleep — The Forum, where the immortal accents glow, And still the eloquent air breathes— burns with Cicero ! CXIII.
42. oldal - Straightway Virginius led the maid a little space aside, To where the reeking shambles stood, piled up with horn and hide, Close to yon low dark archway, where, in a crimson flood, Leaps down to the great sewer the gurgling stream of blood. Hard by, a flesher on a block had laid his whittle down : Virginius caught the whittle up, and hid it in his gown. And then his eyes grew...
7. oldal - Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow; so indeed he did. The torrent roared, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, "Help me, Cassius, or I sink!
47. oldal - While laurel-boughs and flowers, From house-tops and from windows, Fell on their crests in showers. When they drew nigh to Vesta, They vaulted down amain, And washed their horses in the well That springs by Vesta's fane. And straight again they mounted, And rode to Vesta's door ; Then, like a blast, away they passed, And no man saw them more.
24. oldal - Twas night; but now A thousand torches, turning night to day, Blazed, and the victor, springing from his seat, Went up, and kneeling as in fervent prayer, Entered the Capitol. But what are they Who at the foot withdraw, a mournful train In fetters ? And who, yet incredulous, Now gazing wildly round, -now on his sons, On those so young...