 ... lectured, as well as porticoes and vestibules for the idle, and libraries for the learned. They were decorated with the finest objects of art, both in painting and sculpture, covered with precious marbles, and adorned with fountains and shaded walks...  A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - Page 148edited by - 1843 - 1116 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Greek antiquities - 1848 - 1322 pages
...which the rhetoricians declaimed, poets recited, and philosophers lectured — as well as porticoes and vestibules for the idle, and libraries for the learned....sculpture, covered with precious marbles, and adorned with iountains :md shaded walks and plantations, like the groves of the Academy. It may be said that they... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Rome - 1851 - 486 pages
...which the rhetoricians declaimed, poets recited, and philosophers lectured, as well as porticoes and vestibules for the idle, and libraries for the learned....walks, and plantations, like the groves of the Academy. These Thermae began and ended with the empire, for it was not until the time of Augustus that these... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1866
...which the rhetoricians declaimed, poets recited, and philosophers lectured, as well as porticoes and vestibules for the idle, and libraries for the learned....and plantations like the groves of the Academy."* I should only fatigue you by attempt. BATH.S OF CAHACALLA. ing to describe the interior arrangements... | |
 | AMOS DEAN, LL.D. - 1869 - 534 pages
...combine in them every species of polite and manly amusement. The rooms were decorated in the finest style of art, both in painting and sculpture, covered with...walks, and plantations like the groves of the Academy. "Within these, most of the different athletic exercises could be carried on ; the taste of the more... | |
 | William Smith - Classical antiquities - 1870 - 1312 pages
...which the rhetoricians declaimed, poets recited, and philosophers lectured—as well as porticoes and vestibules for the idle, and libraries for the learned....and plantations, like the groves of the Academy. It may,be said that they began and ended with the Empire, for it was not until the time of Augustus that... | |
 | charlotte m. yonge - 1877 - 680 pages
...object of their ambition, as paving the way to all advancement. phers lectured, as well as porticoes and vestibules for the idle, and libraries for the learned....with precious marbles, and adorned with fountains and shady walks and plantations, like the groves of the Academy. It may be said that they began and ended... | |
 | 1877 - 636 pages
...which the rhetoricians declaimed, poets recited, and philosophers lectured, as well as porticoes and vestibules for the idle, and libraries for the learned....with precious marbles, and adorned with fountains and shady walks and plantations, like the groves of the Academy. It may be said that they began and ended... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Classical dictionaries - 1897 - 896 pages
...which the rhetoricians declaimed, poets' recited, and philosophers lectured, as well as porticoes and vestibules for the idle, and libraries for the learned....walks and plantations, like the groves of the Academy, and served at Rome all the purposes of a modern club. It may be said that they began and ended with... | |
 | 1862 - 608 pages
...more refined Greeks. The " thermae," (vapour baths) were a very particular class of the Roman baths. They were decorated with the finest objects of art, both in painting and sculptnre, covered with precious marbles, and adorned with fountains and umbrageous walks and plantations,... | |
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