Recent Excavations in the Roman Forum, 1898-1904Murray, 1904 - 223 páginas |
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Recent Excavations in the Roman Forum, 1898-1904: A Handbook E. Burton Brown Visualização completa - 1904 |
Recent Excavations in the Roman Forum, 1898-1904: A Handbook by E. Burton-Brown E. Burton Brown Visualização completa - 1904 |
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Æmilia altar ancient apse Arch Arch of Titus Atrium Augustus base Basilica Julia Black Stone Boni brick building built buried called Capitol centre century B.C. church cippus classical clay columns Comitium concrete Curia Cyricus decorated Dionys Domus Publica early Empire excavations face Fasti feet Festus fifth century fire Flamen floor Forum fragments front Greek hall hearth Heroon imitated inscription Julitta Julius Juturna later lines Livy Maria Antiqua Maxentius monuments opus opus incertum original Ovid painted Palatine pavement pieces platform Plin Plut porticus primitive puteal Quirinal Regia Republic Republican restoration Rex Sacrorum road Roman Rome roof Rostra Rostra of Cæsar Rostra Vetera round Sacra Sacra Via sacred sacrifice sanctuary Severus shrine side slabs square stands statues stood Suet tabernæ tablinum Tabularium Temple of Castor Temple of Vesta tion travertine tufa tufa blocks Varro vases Vestals Vicus Tuscus Vulcan wall
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Página 158 - Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests: what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relics, or might not gladly say, "Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim...
Página 96 - The stone would first be laid upon its side, and the words cut from right to left, and then from left to right, and so on alternately, except where a fresh paragraph was begun, when the same direction was taken twice running.
Página 92 - Romulum sepultum fuisse, et memoriam hujus rei leones duos ibi fuisse, sicut hodieque in sepulcris videmus atque inde esse ut pro rostris mortui laudarentur.
Página 26 - ... dead were here deposited in urns, which are shaped like little round huts with conical roofs, obviously in order that the souls of the dead might live in houses such as they had inhabited during life. The roofs of these miniature dwellings are raised on cross-beams, sometimes with one or more holes to let out the smoke. The door is fastened by a crossbar, which is passed through a ring on the outside and tied to the two side-posts. In some of these hut-urns the side-posts are duplicated, or even...
Página 92 - Niger lapis in Comitio locum funestum significat, ut ali, Romuli morti destinatum...
Página 65 - Quorum qujestus . . . pervenit fere in aream Vulcani . . . quod id genus pisciculorum vivorum datur ei deo pro animis humanis.
Página v - Well-known facts contained in the many previous publications about the Forum have been omitted; but the monuments that were not recently excavated have been noticed In their place, in order to make the little volume a complete handbook.
Página 52 - He was not a war god, but an agricultural one. At the end of the husbandman's year chariot races were held on the Campus Martius...
Página 92 - Barbarusheu cineres insistet victor etUrbem eques sonante verberabit ungula Quaeque carent vends et solibus ossa Quirini nefas videre, dissipabit insolens.
Página 61 - The residence of the Pontifex Maximus was called the Domus Publica, and is to be carefully distinguished from the place of his official duties, as head of the Pontifices, in the Regia.