 | Aulus Gellius - 1795 - 454 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Aulus Gellius - 1795 - 454 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1806 - 630 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Gustavus Lemaistre - 1806 - 400 pàgines
...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...mantle ; who loitered away whole days in the street or the forum, to hear news, and to hold disputes; who dissipated in extravagant gaming the miserable pittance... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 460 pàgines
...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 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... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 434 pàgines
...water flowed from silver fountains, " where the meanest Roman 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*." But this was not public happiness. In the crowded dwellings of the city the wives and children of the... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 422 pàgines
...water flowed from silver fountains, " where the meanest Roman 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*." But this was not public happiness. In the crowded dwellings of the city the wives and children of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 468 pàgines
...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 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... | |
 | Thomas Moule - 1833 - 204 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1844 - 312 pàgines
...water flowed from silver fountains, "where the meanest Roman 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."* But this was not public happiness. In the crowded dwellings of the city, the * Gibbon, chap. xxii.... | |
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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... 
