Pompeiana: The Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of PompeiiH.G. Bohn, 1852 - 208 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 29 - ... it appeared sometimes Bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders.
الصفحة 64 - ... aperture on the road side), was a ground floor, with extensive arcades and open rooms, all facing the garden ; and above were the principal rooms. It was spacious, and near the entrance was a bath with all the necessary appendages; in the rear the best rooms opened upon a terrace, running the whole width of the house, and overlooking a garden about 30 yards square, surrounded by a covered walk or portico continued under the terrace.
الصفحة 48 - ... the greatest men of the republic. None but those of the highest rank were eligible' to the office of superintending that service, and we find Augustus himself taking the charge of a district. The Appian Way, the most ancient as well as most noble, being distinguished by the epithet of regina viarum, as originally made by Appius Claudius the Censor, extended from Rome to Capua...
الصفحة 104 - ... essential consequence where the skill of the architect was rather directed to the exclusion of heat than precaution against the less mild months of the year. Hence we find scarcely a house in the whole city of Pompeii, of which the walls are not considerably indebted for their durability to the plaster with which they are covered. Ill built, of the worst brick and rubble work, with mortar generally but insufficiently mixed, their thickness in few instances appears adequate to the service they...
الصفحة 50 - If the traveller obeyed their invitation, siste viator, he might pause to smile at the last lingering of human vanity, or contemplate the scanty notices of those who had successively contributed by their courage and talents, to support in difficulty the state, or enlarge the empire until its limits were unknown. Indignation might be excited at the sumptuous monument of the barber of Augustus or freedman of Claudius, while Pompey or Cato had little or no memorial to mark the place where their mortal...
الصفحة 199 - ... entering each sign of the Zodiac ; and, consequently, at every point in his path through the ecliptic. They likewise point out the hours of the day ; the shadow descending with the rising, and again ascending with the declining sun. The Academy observe, that in suspending, to make use of this instrument, the side should be presented to the sun ; and when the extremity of the shadow of the gnomon reaches the vertical line marked with the name of the actual month, the horizontal intersection will...
الصفحة 6 - ... twenty feet. Separating the whole into five portions, we shall find the first three to consist of pumice-stone in small pieces resembling a light white cinder, and covering the pavement to the depth of twelve feet : the next portion is composed of six parts, beginning with a stratum of small black stones, not more than...
الصفحة 71 - Pompeii, and remarkable in being covered with extremely low relievos,1 painted, of gladiatorial combats. The gladiators of Ampliatus, whose names and fate appear to have been written over their likenesses, lions, bears, panthers, bulls, wolves, and rabbits, with dogs, stags, and nondescripts, all seem to have been brought upon the scene for the entertainment of the Pompeians, and satisfaction of Scaurus
الصفحة 159 - ... if steps they should be termed, when evidently not proportioned for convenience of access to the interior, but calculated rather with a view to the general effect of the whole siructuref.
الصفحة 33 - ... down to rise no more ; while those who escaped, spread the alarm, with all the circumstances of aggravation and horror which their imaginations, under the influence of fear, suggested. At length a gleam of light appeared, not of day, but fire ; which, passing, was succeeded by an intense darkness, with so heavy a shower of ashes, that it became necessary to keep the feet in motion to avoid being fixed and buried by the accumulation. On the fourth day the darkness by degrees began to clear away,...