 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1852 - 482 lapas
...without mortar, have not to this day moved a knife's breadth from one another, drew the water from die surface, conducted it into the Tiber, and thus changed...ancient work everything is made of square blocks of hewn Al ban stone, and the foundations are immensely deep. Now whether the cloaca maxima was actually executed... | |
 | Edward Pococke - 1852 - 444 lapas
...far surpasses them in the difficulty of its execution. It is so gigantic that the more you examine it the more inconceivable it becomes, how even a large...hewn Alban stone, and the foundations are immensely deep."1 These are the people who constructed the ancient Catabothra of Boeotia, drained the valleys... | |
 | Charles Merivale - 1912 - 583 lapas
...structure, equalling the pyramids in extent and massiveness, far surpasses them in the difficulty of execution. It is so gigantic, that the more one examines...a large and powerful state could have executed it. Therefore, the reign of Tarquinius Priscus must have been separated from that of Ancus by a very long... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1923 - 960 lapas
...moved a knife's breadth from one another . . . equalling the pyramids in extent and massiveness, tar surpasses them in the difficulty of its execution....a large and powerful state could have executed it. ... Whether the cloaca maxima was actually executed by Tarquinus Priscus or by his son Superbus is... | |
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... conducted it into the Tiber, and thus changed the lake into solid ground; but as the Tiber itself had a marshy bank, a large wall was built as an embankment, the greater part of which still exists. This structure equalling the pyramids in extent and... 