 The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with the precious green marble of 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,...  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - 第285页作者：Edward Gibbon - 1811全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | Aulus Gellius - 1795 - 454 页
...contained above ftxteen hundred feats of marble, and more than three thoufand were reckoned in the baths of Diocletian. The walls of the lofty apartments were covered With curious Mofaics, that imitated the art of the pencil in the elegance of defign, and variety of colours. The... | |
 | Aulus Gellius - 1795 - 454 页
...contained above fixtcen hundred feats of marble, and more than three thoufand were reckoned in the baths of Diocletian. The walls of the lofty apartments were covered with curious Mofaics, that imitated th« art of the pencil in the elegance of defign, and variety of colours. The... | |
 | John Gustavus Lemaistre - 1806 - 400 页
...sixteen hundred seats of marble ; and more than three thousand were reckoned in the baths of Dioclesian. The walls of the lofty apartments were covered with...pencil in the elegance of design and the variety of the colors. The Egyptian granite was beautifully incrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia.... | |
 | Thomas Moule - 1833 - 200 页
...reckoned in the baths of Diocletian. The walls of the lofty apartments, according to his authority, were covered with curious mosaics, that imitated the...of colours : the Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia. A perpetual stream of hot water 1 Epist. 86. I... | |
 | JAMES WHITESIDE - 1848 - 412 页
...indiscriminate service of the senators and the people, contained above sixteen hundred seats of marble. The walls of the lofty apartments were covered with...curious mosaics that imitated the art of the pencil in elegance of design and the variety of their colours. * See Region 12, Baths of Antoninus. The Egyptian... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 458 页
...hundred seats of marble ; and more than three thousand were reckoned in the baths of Diocletian.58 The walls of the lofty apartments were covered with...variety of colours. The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia ; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1863 - 998 页
...of Diocletian, were open at stated hours for the indiscriminate service of the senators and people. "The walls of the lofty apartments were covered with...variety of colours. The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with the precious green marble of Numidia ; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1864 - 750 页
...portrayed in mosaics. Thus Gibbon remarks, in his " Decline and Fall :" " The walls of the lofty apartment were covered with curious mosaics, that imitated the art of the pencil in the elegance of their design and the beauty of their colours. It was the ambition of the Roman emperors to construct... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1860 - 610 页
...indiscriminate service of the senators and the people, contained above sixteen hundred scats of marble. The walls of the lofty apartments were covered with...curious mosaics that imitated the art of the pencil in elegance of design and in the variety of their colours. The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted... | |
 | Dawson Massy - 1863 - 522 页
...marble and the Diocletian more than three thousand. The walls of their lofty apartments were still covered with curious mosaics, that imitated the art...variety of colours. The Egyptian granite was beautifully encrusted with the precious green marble of Nnmidia ; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured... | |
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