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Page 67 - Hue prius angustis eiecta cadavera cellis conservus vili portanda locabat in area; hoc miserae plebi stabat commune sepulcrum, Pantolabo scurrae Nomentanoque nepoti: mille pedes in fronte, trecentos cippus in agrum hie dabat, heredes monumentum ne sequeretur. Nunc licet Esquiliis habitare salubribus atque aggere in aprico spatiari, quo modo tristes albis informem spectabant ossibus agrum...
Page 64 - In many cases the contents of each vault were reduced to a uniform mass of black, viscid, pestilent, unctuous matter ; in a few cases the bones could in a measure be singled out and identified. The reader will hardly believe me when I say that men and beasts, bodies and carcasses, and any kind of unmentionable refuse of the town were heaped up in those dens.
Page 2 - Quivi era storiata l' alta gloria Del roman prince, lo cui gran valore Mosse Gregorio alla sua gran vittoria : Io dico di Traiano imperadore; Ed una vedovella gli era al freno, Di lagrime atteggiata e di dolore. Dintorno a lui parea calcato e pieno Di cavalieri , e l' aquile dell' oro Sovresso in vista al vento si movieno. La miserella infra tutti costoro Parea dicer: Signor, fammi vendetta Del mio figliuol ch' è morto, ond'io m' accoro. VENTOSI. 7 Ed egli a lei rispondere: Ora aspetta Tanto ch
Page 48 - ... an active international commerce, nor so near as to expose the city to a sudden attack from foreign vessels; a site in the centre of the peninsula ; a situation made, as it were, on purpose to allow the city to become the greatest in the world."4 3 Plutarch, "Solon.
Page 61 - I found everybody sad and despondent ; they had given up all hopes that the two opposite sections of the tunnel would meet, because each section had already been excavated beyond the middle of the mountain, and the junction had not yet been effected.
Page 62 - I began by surveying and taking the levels of the mountain; I marked most carefully the a,xis of the tunnel across the ridge; I drew plans and sections of the whole work, which plans I handed over to Petronius Celer...
Page 3 - Above them visibly in the wind were moving. The wretched woman in the midst of these Seemed to be saying: "Give me vengeance, Lord, For my dead son, for whom my heart is breaking." And he to answer her: "Now wait until I shall return." And she: "My Lord," like one In whom grief is impatient, "shouldst thou not Return?" And he: "Who shall be where I am Will give it thee.
Page 62 - In each section of the tunnel they had diverged from the straight line, each towards the right, and had I waited a little longer before coming, Saldae would have possessed two tunnels instead of one...
Page 93 - ... gymnastics to restore circulation and to prepare himself for the delights of the table. The luxurious meal finished, the gigantic club-house could supply him •with every kind of amusement : libraries, concerts, literary entertainments, reading of the latest poems or novels, popular shows, conversation with the.