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ancient appears Aqua aqueduct arches Augustus Aurelian Basilica Basilica Julia Baths blocks brick facing brick-faced bronze building built Cæsar called Capitoline Caracalla Cella century B.C. chambers Church Circus Maximus Colosseum columns concrete walls Corinthian cornice decorated Dion Cass Domitian emperor entablature Esquiline Etruscan excavated feet Flavian floor formed Forum Boarium Forum Magnum fragments front gate Greek Hadrian hill inches inscribed inscription Julia Julius Cæsar Jupiter Livy magnificent massive mentioned mosaic moulded Nero opus reticulatum painted palace Palatine Pantheon passage paved pedestal peperino peribolus Peristyle pipes Pliny Hist podium Porta Porticus probably rebuilt reign reliefs restored road Roman Rome Romulus rooms Rostra round rows Sacra Sacra Via sculpture Servian Servian wall Severus side slabs slope specus stairs statues stone stucco Suet Tablinum Tabularium Temple theatre Therma thick Titus tomb Trajan travertine tufa upper Varro vaulted Velabrum Vestals Vitruvius white marble whole wooden
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Seite 203 - DIVINA • ALTARIA • OMNIVM • DEORVM • ET • AD • AETERNOS • IGNES • DIEBVS • NOCTIBVSQVE • PIA • MENTE • RITE • DESERVIENS • MERITO • AD • HVNC • LOCVM • CVM • AETATE • PERVENIT • BAREIVS • ZOTICVS • CVM • FLAVIA • VERECVNDA • SVA • OB • EXIMIAM • EIVS • ERGA • SE • BENIBOLENTIAM (sic) PRAESTANTIAMQ . This contains a similar eulogy of Flavia's piety, and careful guardianship of the eternal fires.
Seite 300 - Quintus Fabius Pictor was . . . sent to Delphi to enquire of the oracle by what prayers and offerings they might appease the gods. . . . Meanwhile, certain extraordinary sacrifices were performed, according to the directions of the books of the fates ; among which a Gallic man and woman and a Greek man and woman were [buried] alive in the cattle-market.
Seite 21 - Et ipsarum aedium species sunt varicae, barycephalae, humiles, latae, ornanturque signis fictilibus aut aereis inauratis earum fastigia tuscanico more, uti est ad Circum Maximum Cereris et | Herculis Pompeiani, item Capitolii.
Seite 471 - The date of this inscription (given by the tribunicia potestate V. etc.) is 52 AD The special ornamentation of this piece of the aqueduct is due to its being a part where a road passed under it, as is the case with portions of other aqueducts at the Porta Maggiore, the Porta S.
Seite 417 - The medium used was melted white wax (c£r& pftnlcd), mixed with oil to make it more fluid. The pot containing the wax was kept over a brazier, while the painter was at work, in order to keep the melted wax from solidifying. The stucco itself was prepared by a coating of hot wax applied with a brush, and it was polished by being rubbed with a wax candle, and finally with a clean linen cloth. After the picture was painted, the wax colours were fixed, partly melted into the stucco, and blended with...
Seite 80 - Eum muniunt undique parietes atque insuper camera lapideis fornicibus iuncta, set incultu tenebris odore foeda atque terribilis eius facies est. In eum locum postquam demissus est Lentulus, [vindices rerum capitalium] quibus praeceptum erat laqueo gulam fregere.
Seite 205 - FL • PVBLICIAE • v • v • MAX SANCTISSIMAE • ET • PIISSI MAE • AC • SVPER • OMNES RETRO • RELIGIOSISSIMAE PVRISSIMAE • CASTISSIMAEQVE CVIVS • RELIGIOSAM CVRAM • SACRORVM • ET MORVM • PRAEDICABILEM DISCIPLINAM • NVMEN • QVOQVE VESTAE • CONPROVABIT (sic...
Seite 431 - Tullius on a cross road leading to the Porta Ratumena since the inscription , which is entire on the west front, was repeated on the south front , and some remains of it are still to be traced. When the circuit was extended...
Seite 204 - FLAVIAE • L • F • PVBLICIAE • RELIGIOSAE • SANCTITATIS • V • V • MAX • CVIVS • EGREGIAM • MORVM • DISCIPLINAM • ET • IN ' SACRIS • PERITISSIMAM • OPERATIONEM • MERITO • RESPVBLICA • IN...
Seite 424 - CORNELIVS • LVCIVS • SCIPIO • BARBATVS • GNAIVOD • PATRE | PROGNATVS • FORTIS • VIR • SAPIENSQVE — QVOIVS • FORMA VIRTVTEI • PARISVMA | FVIT — CONSOL • CENSOR • AIDILIS • QVEI FVIT • APVD • VOS — TAVRASIA • CISAVNA | SAMNIO • CEPIT — SVBIGIT • OMNE • LOVCANA • OPSIDESQVE...