All these cities were connected with each other, and with the capital, by the public highways, which, issuing from the Forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire. Annual Register of World Events - Page 1351788Full view - About this book
| Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Art, Ancient - 1845 - 788 pages
...VIA Sarra, Appia, -Emilia, Valeria, Flaminia. These public roadc "issuing from the Forum traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire." Augustus erected a gilt pillar in the middle of the forum, called ^liTliantan aareum(Tac. Hist. i.... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Europe - 1844 - 338 pages
...various directions from the Forum — or great central place of public assembly — of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire. On the northwest, the boundary of this extensive empire was the wall of Antoninus, built betwixt the... | |
| Thomas Cooper - Biography - 1854 - 732 pages
...other and with the capital by the public highways, which, issuing from the Forum at Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated...frontiers of the empire. If we carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antoninus (in Scotland) to Rome, and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be... | |
| Archaeology - 1854 - 506 pages
...other, and with the capital, by the public highways, which, issuing from the Forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated...frontiers of the Empire. If we carefully trace the distance from the Wall of Antoninus to Rome, and thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the great... | |
| David Davidson - 1857 - 804 pages
...other, and with the capital, by the public highways, which, issuing from the Forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated...frontiers of the empire. If we carefully trace the distance from the wall of Anton ius to Rome, and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the... | |
| William Robert A. Boyle - Bible - 1863 - 698 pages
...other and with the capital by the public highways, which issuing from the forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated...frontiers of the empire. If we carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the... | |
| United States. Dept. of the Interior - 1865 - 1182 pages
...diversified productions of otl tions of the Union and of foreign countries. us, from the Forum, " traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire." It linked together cities of ancient Italy, traversed Cisalpine Gaul, passing the Alps, entering Spain,... | |
| 1866 - 724 pages
...productions of other portions of the Union and of foreign countries. us, from the Forum, "traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire." It linked together cities of ancient Italy, traversed Cisalpine Gaul, passing the Alps, entering Spain,... | |
| Jurisprudence - 1872 - 524 pages
...great Roman highways, the railways of antiquity, which " issuing from the Forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the Provinces, and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire." * This vast system of internal communication was an essential part of her great mission of conquest... | |
| Churches of Christ - 1875 - 448 pages
...each other, and with the capital by public highways, which, issuing from the forum of Rome traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces, and were terminated...frontiers of the empire." If we carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antoninus to Rome, and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the... | |
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