 | Thomas Arnold - 1845 - 526 Seiten
...rocks and snow. To go round was impossible; for the depth of the snow on the heights above rendered it hopeless to scale them ; nothing therefore was...found, and cleared of the snow ; and here the army were obliged to encamp, whilst the work went on. There was no want of hands ; and every man was labouring... | |
 | Livy - 1850 - 354 Seiten
...scattered rocks and snow. To go round was impossible ; for the depth of snow on the heights above rendered it hopeless to scale them ; nothing therefore was...in reference to depth, but to length. 43. Tetra— volutabantur. I follow throughout the reading of Alschefski, which is supported by the best MS. authority,... | |
 | Livy - 1857 - 364 Seiten
...scattered rocks and snow Го go round was impossible ; for the depth of snow on the heights above lendered it hopeless to scale them ; nothing therefore was...on."— Arnold, Hist. 2, p. 288. In Polybius, this Blip of the road is stated to have taken place, not in reference to depth, but to length. 43. Tetra... | |
 | 1858 - 392 Seiten
...scaling the heights above on account of the great depth of snow, and nothing remained but to reconstruct the road. A summit of some extent was found and cleared of snow, on which the army encamped, and all working for their lives, succeeded in completing in one day... | |
 | sir Patrick Leonard MacDougall - 1858 - 252 Seiten
...the heights above, on account of the great depth of snow ; and nothing remained but to reconstruct the road. A summit of some extent was found and cleared of snow, on which the army encamped, and all, working for their lives, succeeded in completing in one... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1866 - 420 Seiten
...rocks and snow. To go round was impossible ; for the depth of the snow on the heights above rendered it hopeless to scale them; nothing therefore was left...army was obliged to encamp, whilst the work went on. There was no want of hands ; and every man was laboring for his life ; the road therefore was restored,... | |
 | William John Law - 1866 - 370 Seiten
..." rocks and snow. To go round was impossible: for the depth " of snow on the heights above rendered it hopeless to scale " them. Nothing therefore was left but to repair the road." According to this statement, no attempt to go round was made; and, if it had been made, it would have... | |
 | Titus Livius - 1874 - 160 Seiten
...rocks and snow. To go round was impossible, for tho depth of the snow on the heights above rendered it hopeless to scale them ; nothing, therefore, was left but to repair the road.' (А. Ш. 75.) 2. In pcdum, &c.] ' Had been carried away to the depth of fully a thousand feet.' That... | |
 | Elizabeth Spooner - 1876 - 238 Seiten
...rocks and snow. To go round was impossible, for the depth of the snow on the heights above rendered it hopeless to scale them; nothing, therefore, was...found, and cleared of the snow; and here the army were obliged to encamp whilst the work went on. There was no want of hands, and every man was labouring... | |
 | 1878 - 312 Seiten
...rocks and snow. To go round was impossible : for the depth of the snow on the heights above rendered it hopeless to scale them : nothing therefore was...army was obliged to encamp, whilst the work went on. There was no want of hands : and every man was labouring for his life. The road therefore was restored,... | |
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... at last they came to a place where an avalanche had carried it away altogether for about three hundred yards, leaving the mountain side a mere wreck of scattered rocks and snow. To go round was impossible ; for the depth of the snow on the heights... 
