The Tiber and Its TributariesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1877 - 221 pàgines |
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Pàgina 34
... second or third- rate city , baths , temples , and an imperial palace with a theatre attached to it . Portus , the new city , increased at the expense of its sister colony of Ostia ; the municipality of the latter migrated in great part ...
... second or third- rate city , baths , temples , and an imperial palace with a theatre attached to it . Portus , the new city , increased at the expense of its sister colony of Ostia ; the municipality of the latter migrated in great part ...
Pàgina 37
... thousand square miles . † If water flows three inches in a second , it will carry clay ; if six inches , sand ; and if twelve inches , gravel . " bottom during floods , and constitute the rich loam NAVIGATION OF THE TIBER . 37.
... thousand square miles . † If water flows three inches in a second , it will carry clay ; if six inches , sand ; and if twelve inches , gravel . " bottom during floods , and constitute the rich loam NAVIGATION OF THE TIBER . 37.
Pàgina 44
... Second , that they were substitutes for the human victims who in a remote period of Italian history were sacrificed to Saturn . The first explanation is rejected by the Poet as absurd ; the second may equally be repudiated . For there ...
... Second , that they were substitutes for the human victims who in a remote period of Italian history were sacrificed to Saturn . The first explanation is rejected by the Poet as absurd ; the second may equally be repudiated . For there ...
Pàgina 62
... second deluge , like that of Noah , was anticipated . On this occasion the following verses were composed : Crevit ad hoc signum transcendens limina Tybris Octava Iani , quæ memoranda dies . Territa Roma : Noe redeunt jam tempora ...
... second deluge , like that of Noah , was anticipated . On this occasion the following verses were composed : Crevit ad hoc signum transcendens limina Tybris Octava Iani , quæ memoranda dies . Territa Roma : Noe redeunt jam tempora ...
Pàgina 74
... second time , on which occasion the city was relieved by John Sobiesky . What a change in the relative strength of the two countries , when Austria , which 193 years ago was unable to defend herself against Turkey without foreign aid ...
... second time , on which occasion the city was relieved by John Sobiesky . What a change in the relative strength of the two countries , when Austria , which 193 years ago was unable to defend herself against Turkey without foreign aid ...
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