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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by ... - Page 60
by Edward Gibbon - 1854
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The City of Rome: Its Vicissitudes and Monuments from Its Foundation to the ...

Thomas Henry Dyer - 1883 - 572 pages
...of receiving with ease above four-score thousand spectators. Sixty-four vomitories (for by that name the doors were very aptly distinguished) poured forth...order, arrived at his destined place without trouble or confusion. Nothing was omitted which, in any respect, could bo subservient to the convenience and pleasure...
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Analytic Elocution Containing Studies, Theoretical and Practical, of ...

James Edward Murdoch - 1884 - 510 pages
...of receiving with ease, above fourscore thousand spectators. Sixty.four vomitories (for by that name the doors were very aptly distinguished), poured forth...order, arrived at his destined place without trouble or confusion. Nothing was omitted which, in any respect, could be subservient to the convenience and pleasure...
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A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian ...

1886 - 634 pages
...of receiving with ease above fourscore thousand spectators. Sixty-four vomitories (for by that name the doors were very aptly distinguished) poured forth...order, arrived at his destined place without trouble or confusion. Nothing was omitted which in any respect could be subservient to the convenience or pleasure...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 2

Edward Gibbon - 1887 - 480 pages
...immense multitude ; and the entrances, passages, and staircases were contrivt-d with such exquisite skUl, that each person, whether of the senatorial, the equestrian,...order, arrived at his destined place without trouble or confusion. 94 Nothing was omitted which, in any respect, could be subservient to the convenience and...
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A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian ...

1892 - 672 pages
...of receiving with ease above fourscore thousand spectators. Sixty-four vomitories (for by that name the doors were very aptly distinguished) poured forth...person, whether of the senatorial, the equestrian иг the plebeian order, arrived at his destined place without trouble or confusion. Nothing was omitted...
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The Student's Roman Empire: A History of the Roman Empire from Its ...

John Bagnell Bury - 1893 - 676 pages
...of receiving with ease above fourscore thousand spectators. Sixty-four vomitories (for by that name the doors were very aptly distinguished) poured forth the immense multitude ; and the entrances, pas?agts and staircases were contrived with such exquisite skill, that each person, whether of the...
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Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities, Volume 1

Harry Thurston Peck - 1897 - 896 pages
...and capable of receiving with ease about 80,000 spectators. Sixty-four vomitories (for by that name the doors were very aptly distinguished) poured forth...the immense multitude; and the entrances, passages, aud staircases were contrived with such exquisite skill that each person, whether of the senatorial,...
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The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome: A Companion Book for Students and ...

Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani - 1897 - 690 pages
...again towards the exits when the show was over. The entrances, staircases, passages, and vomitories were contrived with such exquisite skill that each person, whether of the senatorial, of the equestrian, or of the plebeian order, could gain his seat without trouble or confusion. An ivory...
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A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

William Smith - 1898 - 886 pages
...and capable of receiving with ease ; about 80,000 spectators. Sixty-four vomitories (for by that name the doors were very aptly distinguished) poured forth...and staircases were contrived with such exquisite -kill, | that each person, whether of the senatorial, the ' equestrian, or the plebeian order, arrived...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 720 pages
...the open scats far no more than 34,000. The remainder were contained in the upper covered galleries. very aptly distinguished) poured forth the immense multitude; and the entrances, passages, aud staircases were contrived with such exquisite skill that each person, whether of the senatorial,...
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