A Day in Ancient Rome: Being a Revision of Lohr's "Aus Dem Alten Rom"Heath, 1885 - 96 oldal |
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adorned ancient ARCH OF AUGUSTUS ARCH OF TITUS Aventine Basilica Julia building built Cæsar Caligula called Campus Martius Capitol Capitoline Hill Caracalla Carcer Castor and Pollux chambers Cicero circus citadel Claudius Coliseum 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 Jupiter Stator 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 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 - I was born free as 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.
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 - 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?
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.
42. oldal - 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.
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...
46. oldal - That might not bear the mail, Matrons with lips that quivered, And maids with faces pale. Since the first gleam of daylight, Sempronius had not ceased To listen for the rushing Of horse-hoofs from the east. The mist of eve was rising, The sun was hastening down, When he was aware of a princely pair Fast pricking towards the town. So like they were, man never Saw twins so like before; Ked with gore their armor was, Their steeds were red with gore.
40. oldal - With her small tablets in her hand, and her satchel on her arm, Home she went bounding from the school, nor dreamed of shame or harm...
7. oldal - Help me, Cassius, or I sink.' I, as ^Eneas, our great ancestor, Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber Did I the tired Caesar. And this man Is now become a god ; and Cassius is...