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Page 1 - Rome, had a right to vote in the popular assemblies and to take part in the government of the state. It will be well, then, before beginning the history of the city itself, briefly to describe Italy and the several districts into which it was divided. 2. The Divisions of Italy. — Italy, the central one of the three peninsulas of Southern Europe, is bounded on the north by the Alps, on the east by the Adriatic Sea, and on the south and west by the Mediterranean and Tuscan seas. The country may be...
Page 469 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Page 300 - He was great, repeats a modern writer, in every thing he undertook ; as a captain, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, an historian, a grammarian, a mathematician, and an architect.
Page 419 - Houses were everywhere erected, at the distance only of five or six miles ; each of them was constantly provided with forty horses, and by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel a hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads.
Page 450 - Nothing was omitted which in any respect could be subservient to the convenience or pleasure of the spectators. They were protected from the sun and rain by an ample canopy occasionally drawn over their heads. The air was continually refreshed by the playing of fountains, and profusely impregnated by the grateful scent of aromatics.
Page 338 - Being at length entered the senate-house, -where the conspirators were prepared to receive him, he met one Spurina, an augur, who had foretold his danger, to whom he said, smiling, " Well, Spu" rina, the ides of March are come." " Yes," replied the augur,
Page 32 - Janus was erected in the comitiutn, through which their armies passed going to or returning from war. This was always open in time of war and closed in time of peace, to signify that in peace the two communities were separate, but in war united for mutual protection. 8. The Worship of Vesta. — In the temple of Vesta were worshiped Vesta and the Penates and Lares. The house near by was called the regia, because the worship due to the gods honored there belonged to the king as high-priest of the...
Page 450 - Sixty-four vomitories (for by that name the doors were very aptly distinguished) poured forth the immense multitude ; and the entrances, passages, and staircases, were contrived with such exquisite skill, that each person, whether of the senatorial, the equestrian, or the plebeian order, arrived at his destined place without trouble or confusion.
Page 450 - Hesperides, and was afterwards broken into the rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed an inexhaustible supply of water, and what had just before appeared a level plain might be suddenly converted into a wide lake, covered with armed vessels, and replenished with the monsters of the deep.
Page 450 - It was a building of an elliptic figure, five hundred and sixty-four feet in length, and four hundred and sixty-seven in breadth, founded on fourscore arches, and rising, with four successive orders of architecture, to the height of one hundred and forty feet." The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble, and decorated with statues. The slopes of the vast concave, which formed the inside, were filled and surrounded with sixty or eighty rows of seats, of marble likewise, covered with cushions,...