 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1792 - 452 pages
...confined in flhe apartments above. The s: ulb that bad been employed in making this cave were iff put to death by order of the tyrant, for fear of their revealing to what purpofes a work of fuch uncommon conftru&ion was to be appropriated. His impiety and facrilege were... | |
 | Elisa Rogers - Emperors - 1811 - 488 pages
...apartments above. The. artists employed in making this retreat were all put to death when it was finished, fo.r fear of their revealing to what purposes a work...such uncommon construction was to be appropriated. Dionysius is said to have invented the ca-tapulta, an engine which proved of infinite service for the... | |
 | Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - Classical dictionaries - 1812 - 500 pages
...then put the artists to death, lest they should disclose the purpose for which it was constructed. His impiety and sacrilege were as conspicuous as his suspicious credulity. He died, as some say, of an indigestion, in the C3d year of his age, UC 308, after a reign of 38 years.... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1820 - 892 pages
...confined in the apartments above. The artists that had been employed in making this cave were all put to death by order of the tyrant, for fear of their revealing to what purposes B work of such uncommon construction was to be appropriated. His impiety and sacrilege were as conspicuous... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1822 - 818 pages
...confined in the apartments above. The artists that had been employed in making this cave were all put to death by order of the tyrant, for fear of their...be appropriated. His impiety and sacrilege were as coospicuoui as his suspicious credulity. He took a goldeo mantle from the statue of Jupiter, observing... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1823 - 892 pages
...confined in the apartments above. The artists that had been employed in making this cave were all put to death by order of the tyrant, for fear of their...such uncommon construction was to be appropriated. Hit impiety and sacrilege were as conspicuous as his suspicious credulity. He took a golden mantle... | |
 | John Platts - Biography - 1825 - 1006 pages
...above. The artists that had been employed in making this cave were all put to death by order of that tyrant, for fear of their revealing to what purposes...summer, and too cold for the winter, and he placed on it one of wool instead. He also robbed yEsculapius of his golden beard, and plundered the temple... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1825 - 848 pages
...Lautunut to which Cicero alluded.] The artists that had been employed in making this cave, •were all put to death by order of the tyrant, for fear of their revealing to what purposes a ny and indulged in gross debauchery. Some writers assert that he was obliged for a main tenance to... | |
 | John Mair (schoolmaster.) - 1831 - 454 pages
...in building it •re said to have been put to death by order of the tyrant, lest they should reveal to what purposes a work of such uncommon construction was to be appropriated. He died in the 63d fear of his age, BC 368, after a reign of 38 years. JJionysitw, i, «. II. the son... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Anatomy - 1836 - 560 pages
...confined in the apartments above. The artists that had been employed in making this cave, were all put to death by order of the tyrant, for fear of their...such uncommon construction was to be appropriated;" Plutarch's Lives; 1 Arnott's El. Phy. 416; and authorities referred to in_Lempriere's Classical Diet... | |
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The artists that had been employed in making the cave were all put to death by order of the tyrant, for fear of their revealing to what purposes a work of such uncommon construction was to be appropriated. His impiety and sacrilege were as conspicuous... 
