 The whole circuit of the city is rendered uncommonly strong both by nature and art. For the walls are built upon a rock, which partly by nature, and partly from the labour of art, is very steep and broken. It is surrounded also by rivers on different...  A classical tour through Italy and Sicily - Pągina 91per sir Richard Colt Hoare (2nd bart.) - 1819Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Polybius - 1809 - 486 pągines
...presiding in the government of states. EXTRACT THE FIFTH. Agrigentum in Sicily described. ACRIGENTUM excels almost all other cities not only in the advantages...the Hypsas. The citadel, which stands upon a hill on the north-east side, is secured all round the outside by a deep and inaccessible valley; and has one... | |
 | sir Richard Colt Hoare (2nd bart.) - 1817 - 296 pągines
...Situated at the distance of only eighteen " stadia from the sea, it possesses all the conveniencies " which the sea procures. The whole circuit of the "..." Hypsas. The citadel, which stands upon a hill on " the north-west side, is secured all round the outside " by a deep and inaccessible valley ; and has... | |
 | Polybius - 1823 - 520 pągines
...armies, and of presiding in the government of states. EXTRACT THE FIFTH. Agrigentum in Sicily described. AGRIGENTUM excels almost all other cities not only...the Hypsas. The citadel, which stands upon a hill on the north-east side, is secured all round the outside by a deep and inaccessible valley ; and has one... | |
 | Polybius - 1823 - 518 pągines
...presiding in the government of states. EXTRACT THE FIFTH. •dgrigentum in Sicily described. AORIGENTUM excels almost all other cities not only in the advantages...the Hypsas. The citadel, which stands upon a hill on the north-east side, is secured all round the outside by a deep and inaccessible valley ; and has one... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 pągines
...it possesses all the conveniences which the sea procures. The whole circuit of the city is made very strong, both by nature and art. For the walls are...the Hypsas. The citadel, which stands upon a hill on the north-east side, is secured all around the outside by a deep and inaccessible valley ; and has... | |
 | George Dennis, John Murray (Firm) - 1864 - 664 pągines
...both by nature and art ; for tho walls are built upon a rock, which partly by nature and partly by the labour of art is very steep and broken. It is...rivers on different sides — on the side towards the S. by a river of the same name as the city (now the Fiume di 8, Biagio], and on the W. and SW by that... | |
 | George Dennis - 1864 - 828 pągines
...both by nature and art ; for the wall« are built upon a rock, which partly by nature and partly by the labour of art is very steep and broken. It is surrounded also by rivers on difl'ereiit sides — on the side towards the >S. by a river of the sumo name as the city (now the... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 418 pągines
...it possesses all the conveniences which the sea projures. The whole circuit of the city is made very strong both by nature and art. For the walls are built...the Hypsas. The citadel, which stands upon a hill upon the north-east side, is secured all around the outside by a deep and inaccessible valley : and... | |
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