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" Numidia; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured into the capacious basins through so many wide mouths of bright and massy silver; and the meanest Roman could purchase, with a small copper coin, the daily enjoyment of a scene of pomp and luxury which... "
The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects.. - Seite 311
von James Rennie - 1831
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The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Band 1

Aulus Gellius - 1795 - 454 Seiten
...filver ; and the meaneft Roman could purchafe, with a fmall copper coin, the daily enjoyment of a fcene of pomp and luxury, which might excite the envy of the kings of Afia. From thefe ftately palaces iffued a fwarm of dirty and ragged plebeians, without fhoes.and without...
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The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Band 1

Aulus Gellius - 1795 - 454 Seiten
...fdver ; and the meancft Roman could purchafe, with a /mall copper coin, the daily enjoyment of a fcene of pomp and luxury, which might excite the envy of the kings of Afia. From thefe ftately palaces iflued a fwarm of dirty and ragged plebeians, without fhoes, and without...
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The Medical and Physical Journal: Containing the Earliest ..., Band 16

1806 - 630 Seiten
...use the language of Gibbon, " the meanest citizen could purchase with a small copper coin, the _daily enjoyment of a scene of pomp and luxury, which might excite the envy of the kings of Asia." For the structure of such costly edifices we must, therefore, interest the philanthropy which so eminently...
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Travels After the Peace of Amiens: Through Parts of France ..., Band 3

John Gustavus Lemaistre - 1806 - 400 Seiten
...his homilies to the people cious basins, through so many wide mouths of bright and massy silver : and the meanest Roman could purchase with a small copper...which might excite the envy of the kings of Asia. From these stately palaces issued a swarm of dirty and ragged plebeians, without shoes and without...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Band 5

Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 460 Seiten
...was poured into the capacious basons, through so many wide mouths of bright and massy silver ; and the meanest Roman could purchase, with a small copper...luxury, which might excite the envy of the kings of Asia f. From these stately palaces issued a swarm of dirty and ragged plebeians, without shoes, and without...
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Gibbon's History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, repr ..., Band 3

Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 Seiten
...water was poured into the capacious basons, through so many wide mouths of bright and massy silver; and the meanest Roman could purchase, with a small copper coin, the daily enjoyment * Olympiodor. apud Phot. p. 197. of a scene of pomp and luxury, which might excite CHAP. the envy of...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Band 2

Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 468 Seiten
...was poured into the capacious basins, through so many wide mouths of bright and massy silver ; and the meanest Roman could purchase, with a small copper...luxury, which might excite the envy of the kings of Asia.(58) From these stately palaces issued a swarm of dirty and ragged plebeians, without shoes, ana...
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An Essay on the Roman Villas of the Augustan Age, Their Architectural ...

Thomas Moule - 1833 - 204 Seiten
...2 was poured into capacious basins through many wide mouths of bright and massy silver, displaying a scene of pomp and luxury which might excite the envy of the kings of Asia1. Wilkins, in his translation of Vitruvius, says there is perhaps no instance remaining of Roman...
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The Family Library (Harper)., Band 164

1844 - 312 Seiten
...respectability, by a more equal disi tribution of the national wealth, the Goth would never have dared to bring the weakness of barbarism into hostile contact with...happiness. In the crowded dwellings of the city, the * Gibbon, chap. xxii. wives and children of the plebeians were suffering every privation, amid which...
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ITALY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, CONTRASTED WITH ITS PAST CONDITION IN THREE ...

JAMES WHITESIDE - 1848 - 412 Seiten
...water was poured into the capacious basins through so many wide mouths of bright and massy silver; and the meanest Roman could purchase, with a small copper...which might excite the envy of the kings of Asia. From these stately palaces issued a swarm of dirty and ragged plebeians, without shoes and without...
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