 Ilium, once a prosperous city, to the empires of Assyria, Media, and Persia, the greatest of their time, and to Macedonia itself, the brilliance of which was so recent, either deliberately or the verses escaping him, he said : A day will come when sacred...  Gwyddoniadur Cymreig - Page 234edited by - 1877Full view - About this book
 | William Smith - Rome - 1865 - 428 pages
...one day befall Rome, he is said to have repeated the lines of the Iliad over the flames of Carthage: "The day shall come when sacred Troy shall perish, and Priam and his people shall be slain." Scipio returned to Rome in the same year, and celebrated a splendid triumph on account of his victory.... | |
 | William Smith - Rome - 1874 - 410 pages
...one day befall Rome, he is said to have repeated the lines of the Iliad over the flames of Carthage: "The day shall come when sacred Troy shall perish, and Priam and his people shall be slain." Scipio returned to Rome in the same year, and celebrated a splendid triumph on account of his victory.... | |
 | William Smith - Rome - 1891 - 416 pages
...one day befall Rome, he is said to have repeated the lines of the Iliad over the flames of Carthage: "The day shall come when sacred Troy shall perish, and Priam and his people shall he slain." Scipio returned to Rome in the same year, and celebrated a splendid triumph on account of... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1892 - 868 pages
...across his mind that some day Rome too might perish, and the words of the Iliad rose to his lips : ' The day shall come when sacred Troy shall perish, and Priam and his people shall be slain.' Scipio, though probably the most accomplished Roman gentleman of his age, was rigorous in his observance... | |
 | Chandler Belden Beach - 1893 - 820 pages
...the thought of tie possible destruction of Rome flashing over him, he quoted the words of the Hind: " The day shall come when sacred Troy shall perish, and Priam and his people shall be slain." In 142 he was censor, in 139 an ambassador to Egypt and Asia, and in 134 he was reelected consul. The... | |
 | 1896 - 920 pages
...across his mind that some day Rome too might perish, and the words of the Ilmd rose to his lips : ' The day shall come when sacred Troy shall perish, and Priam and his people shall be slain.' Scipio, though probably the most accomplished Roman gentleman of his age, was rigorous in his observance... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 918 pages
...some day Home too might perish, and the words of the Iliad rose to his lips — The day shall crime when sacred Troy shall perish, And Priam and his people shall be slain. S. , though probably the most accomplished Roman gentleman of his age, was rigorous in his observance... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 978 pages
...across his mind that some day Rome too might perish, and the words of the Iliad rose to his lips — The day shall come when sacred Troy shall perish, And Priam and his people shall be slain. Scipio, though probably the most accomplished Roman gentleman of his age, was rigorous in his observance... | |
 | Chandler Belden Beach, Graeme Mercer Adam - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1901 - 892 pages
...the thought of the possible destruction of Rome flashing o ver him, he quoted the words of the/h'ad: "The day shall come when sacred Troy shall perish, and Priam and his people shall be slain." In 142 he was censor, in 139 an ambassador to Egypt and Asia, and in 134 he was re-elected consul.... | |
 | Washington State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1898 - 170 pages
...we feel disposed to question their wisdom, compare our own achievements with theirs. "The day will come when sacred Troy shall perish, And Priam and his people shall be slain." Do not then let us make a breach in our walls to admit the Grecian horse. MINING LAWS IN WASHINGTON.... | |
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