 | Alexander Van Millingen - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 560
...founded, he would look upon a glorious and splendid scene, not upon a bare and naked void; he would behold it fair, not with apparent, but with real, beauty." The mansions of the wealthy were now larger and more stately ; the suburbs also had grown. " The city," continues the orator,... | |
 | William Holden Hutton - 1921 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...gleams with gold and porphyry. It has a [new] Forum, named after the Emperor ; it owns baths, porticos, gymnasia ; and its former extremity is now its centre....fair, not with apparent but with real beauty." ' The beginning of the fifth century witnessed the great extension of the city which the orator so grandiloquently... | |
 | Jane Taylor - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...fringe. The city gleams with gold and porphyry. It has a new Forum, named after the Emperor; it has baths, porticoes, gymnasia; and its former extremity...it fair, not with apparent but with real beauty.' In 395 Theodosius the Great was succeeded by his son Honorius in the West and Arcadius in the East.... | |
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... the beauty of the city is not as heretofore scattered over it in patches, but covers the whole area like a robe woven to the very fringe. The city gleams with gold and porphyry. It has a [new] Forum, named after the Emperor ; it owns baths, porticos,... 