In the centre of the edifice, the arena, or stage, was strewed with the finest sand, and successively assumed the most different forms. At one moment it seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides, and was afterwards broken into... A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - Page 78edited by - 1873 - 1293 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1879 - 678 pages
...open •eats for no more than 34,000. The remainder were contained in th« upiier covered galleries. and replenished with the monsters of the deep." In...decoration of these scenes, the Roman emperors displayed th*»1r wealth and liberality ; and we read on various occasions ilivl. the whole furniture of the... | |
| Robert Fowler Leighton - Rome - 1880 - 608 pages
...different forms. At one moment it seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hosperides, and was afterwards broken into the rocks and caverns...replenished with the monsters of the deep. In the decorations of these scenes, the Roman emperors displayed their wealth and liberality ; and we read... | |
| Hiram Collins Haydn - Amusements - 1880 - 172 pages
...afterwards broken into the rocks and caverns of Thrace At one moment it was a level plain, and the next a wide lake covered with armed vessels and replenished with the monsters of the deep." The vain and reckless prodigality of Carinus — a man unfit to live in the most corrupt times —... | |
| Thomas Henry Dyer - Rome (Italy) - 1883 - 572 pages
...different forms. At one moment it seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides, and was afterwards broken into the rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed an inexhaust1ble supply of water, and what had just before appeared a level plain might be suddenly converted... | |
| James Edward Murdoch - Elocution - 1884 - 510 pages
...seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides ; at another, it exhibited the rugged rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes...replenished with the monsters of the deep. In the decorations of these scenes, the Roman emperors displayed their wealth and liberality; and we read,... | |
| Robert Fowler Leighton - Rome - 1885 - 596 pages
...the rocks and caverns of Tiirace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed an inexhaustible supply of uater ; and what had just before appeared a level plain might...armed vessels and replenished with the monsters of the dee]). In the decorations of these scenes, the Roman emperors displayed their wealth and liberality... | |
| Christian literature, Early - 1886 - 634 pages
...different forms ; at one moment it seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides, and was afterwards broken into the rocks and caverns...these scenes the Roman emperors displayed their wealth and liberality ; and we read, on various occasions, that the whole furniture of the amphitheatre consisted... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1887 - 480 pages
...different forms. At one moment H seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides, and was afterwards broken into the rocks and caverns...these scenes the Roman emperors displayed their wealth and liberality ; and we read on various occasions that the whole furniture of the amphitheatre consisted... | |
| John Bagnell Bury - Rome - 1893 - 676 pages
...one moment it seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides, and was afterwaids broken into the rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous...these scenes the Roman Emperors displayed their wealth and liberality ; and we read on various occasions that the whole furniture of the amphitheatre consisted... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - Classical dictionaries - 1897 - 896 pages
...out of the earth like the garden of the Hesperides, and was afterAMPHITHEATRUM AMPHITHEATRUM wards broken into the rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous...an inexhaustible supply of water; and what had just hefore appeared a level plain might bo suddenly converted into a wide lake, covered with armed vessels,... | |
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