 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 518 pàgines
...out, the sun was hidden, and then the giants seemed to rise again, while the sounds of trumpets were heard, &c. &c.; and finally," he relates, " two entire...were buried under showers of ashes, while all the * Ilanstx aut obrutffi urbes. — Hist. lib. i. f Hist. Rom. lib. Izvi. people were sitting in the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1840 - 514 pàgines
...then the giants seemed to rise again, while the sounds of trumpets were heard, &c. &c.; and finally,'1 he relates, " two entire cities, Herculaneum and Pompeii,...were buried under showers of ashes, while all the stae aut obrutae urbes. — Hist. lib. i. . Rom. lib. )x vi. people were sitting in the theatre." That... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1848 - 824 pàgines
...apd smoke were thrown out, the sun was hidden, and then the giants were heard, &c. ; and finally that two entire cities, Herculaneum and Pompeii, were buried under showers of ashes, whilst the people were sitting in the theatre. — Life of Titus. most too gigantic for the powers... | |
 | 1850 - 418 pàgines
...of all things. Dion Cassius, who flourished about a century and a half after Pliny, affirms that " Herculaneum and Pompeii were buried under showers...while all the people were sitting in the theatre." Though the result of recent explorations disproves such an idea, if literally received, it is very... | |
 | Ruins - 1852 - 464 pàgines
...of all things. Dion Cassius, who flourished about a century and a half after Pliny, affirms that " Herculaneum and Pompeii were buried under showers...while all the people were sitting in the theatre." Though the result of recent explorations disproves such an idea, if literally received, it is very... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1868 - 796 pàgines
...driven by these anticipatory throes to fly from the doomed towns. For though Dion Cassius relates that " two entire cities, Herculaneum and Pompeii, were buried...while all the people were sitting in the theatre," yet " the examination of the two cities enables ns to prove," says Sir Charles, "that none of the people... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1865 - 880 pàgines
...out, the sun was hidden, and then the giants seemed to rise again, while the sounds of trumpets were heard, &c., &c. ; and finally," he relates, " two...Herculaneum and Pompeii, were buried under showers jof ashes, while all the people were sitting in the theatre." That many of these circumstances were... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1867 - 746 pàgines
...out, the sun was hidden, and then the giants seemed to rise again, while the sounds of trumpets were heard, &c. &c. ; and finally,' he relates, ' two entire...examination of Herculaneum and Pompeii enables us to * 'Haustu> ant obruUe urbcs.' — Hist lib. i. f Hist. Rom. lib. Ixvi. prove, that none of the people... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1868 - 822 pàgines
...driven by these anticipatory throes to fly from the doomed towns. For though Dion Ca*sius relates that " two entire cities, Herculaneum and Pompeii, were buried...while all the people were sitting in the theatre," yet "the examination of the two ciliés enables us to prove," says Sir Charles, " tint none of the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1868 - 928 pàgines
...doomed towns. For though Dion Cassms relates that " two entire cities, Herculaneum and Pompeii, wore buried under showers of ashes, while all the people were sitting in the theatre," vet " the examination of the two cities enables ns to prove," says Sir Charles, "that none of the people... | |
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... stature, resembling giants, appeared, sometimes on the mountain, and sometimes in the environs — that stones and smoke were thrown out, the sun was hidden, and then the giants seemed to rise again, while the sounds of trumpets were heard, &c. &c.... 
