A classical tour through Italy and Sicily, Volum 1

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Pàgina 127 - AGROS DIVISIT IN ITALIA . BENEVENTI . IN GALLIA COLONIAS DEDUXIT LUGDUNUM ET RAURICAM.
Pàgina 169 - The Night o'er earth now spread her dusky shade. And through the heavens her starry train display'd; What time, between the slaves and boatmen rise Quarrels of clamorous rout. The boatman cries, " Step in, my masters;" when with open throat, . " Enough, you scoundrel; will you sink the boat ?" • Thus, while the mule is harness'd, and we pay Our freights, an hour in wrangling slips away.
Pàgina 169 - And laggard into two days journey broke What were but one to less encumber'd folk; The Appian road, however, yields most pleasure To those who choose to travel at their leisure. The water here was of so foul a stream, Against my stomach I a war proclaim, And wait, though not with much good humour wait, While with keen appetites my comrades ate.
Pàgina 135 - Sextilius, to tell you that he forbids you to set foot in Africa. If you obey not, he will support the Senate's decree, and treat you as a public enemy.
Pàgina 134 - Cimbrian, proceeded sword in hand to dispatch his victim. The chamber in which Marius was confined was gloomy, and a light, they say, glanced from the eye of Marius upon the face of the assassin, while at the same time a solemn voice exclaimed, " Dost thou dare to kill Marius ?" Upon which the soldier threw down his sword and fled, crying,
Pàgina 171 - Thence onward laboring with a world of pain At ten, Feronia, we thy fountain gain ; There land and bathe ; then after dinner creep Three tedious miles, and climb the rocky steep Whence Anxur shines. Maecenas was to meet Cocceius here, to settle things of weight : For they had oft in embassy been join'd. And reconcil'd the masters of mankind.
Pàgina 170 - Drench'd in the lees of wine the watery swain And passenger, in loud alternate strain, Chant forth the absent fair who warms his breast, Till wearied passenger retires to rest, Our clumsy bargeman sends his mule to graze, And the tough cable to a rock belays, Then...
Pàgina 213 - The shining armies sweep along the ground ; Swift as a flood of fire, when storms arise, Floats the wide field, and blazes to the skies. Earth groan'd beneath them ; as when angry Jove Hurls down the forky lightning from above, On Arime when he the thunder throws, And fires Typhoeus with redoubled blows, Where Typhon, press'd beneath the burning load, Still feels the fury of the
Pàgina 134 - Under the influence of this enthusiasm, they immediately conducted him to the sea-coast. Yet in the midst of their officious expedition they met with some delay.
Pàgina 135 - Marician grove, which they hold sacred, and suffer nothing that enters it to be removed, lay immediately in their way. — Consequently they could not pass through it, and to go round it would be tedious. At last an old man of the company cried out, "that no place, however religious, was inaccessible, if it could contribute to the preservation of Marius. No sooner had he said this, than he took some of the baggage in his hand, and marched through the place. The rest followed with the same alacrity,...

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