 | 1848 - 744 lapas
...is, of course, in the peculiar sense of the word. The object of the cluacn maxima, he considers, " was not merely to carry away the refuse of the city,...reached as a swamp as far as the district between the (iuirinal and Viucinal." (p. 66.) After describing the enormous mound constructed by Servius Tullus,... | |
 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1852 - 482 lapas
...have already remarked, is probably separated by a great chasm from the preceding period, for undor him Rome presents quite a different appearance from...swamp as far as the district between the Quirinal and Vimiual. This work consisting of three semicircles of immense square blocks, which, though without... | |
 | Edward Pococke - 1852 - 444 lapas
...master of the mouth of the Tiber, and fortified Ostia. " But after him a state of things is described by historians of which traces are still visible. Even...Tiber, between the Capitoline, Aventine, and Palatine, and then extended between the Capitoline and Aventine, and reached, as a swamp, as far as the district... | |
 | Edward Pococke - 1856 - 444 lapas
...described by historians 1 Prescott s Peru, vol. ip 59. 3 From Humboldt'B Vue des Cordilleres, p. 294. Q of which traces are still visible. Even at the present...Tiber, between the Capitoline, Aventine, and Palatine, and then extended between the Capitoline and Aventine, and reached, as a swamp, as far as the district... | |
 | Charles Merivale - 1912 - 583 lapas
...ascribed the robe bespangled with gold, and the 1 The Cloaca Maxima, or Great Sewer (says Niebuhr), was not merely to carry away the refuse of the city, but to drain the large lake which, formed by the Tiber between the Capitoline, Aventine, and Palatine,... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1923 - 960 lapas
...ultimately led to his suicide. See INDIA: 1743-1752; i?55-i757; i?S7; I757-I772CLpACA MAXIMA OF ROME.— "Even at the present day there stands unchanged the...reached as a swamp as far as the district between i86,s the Quirinal and Viminal. This work, consisting of three semicircles of immense square blocks,... | |
 | 1848 - 820 lapas
...is, of course, in the peculiar sense of the word. The object of the cloaca maxima, he considers, " was not merely to carry away the refuse of the city,...and Palatine, then extended between the Palatine and Oapitoline, and reached as a swamp as far as the district between the Quirinal and Vincinal." (p. 66.)... | |
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But after him a state of things is described by the historians, of which traces are still visible. Even at the present day there stands unchanged the great sewer, the cloaca maxima, the object of which, it may be observed, was not merely to carry away... 