 ... air, to keep up their health and strength and to fit them for military duty. The greatest works performed in the time of Augustus were those by which Rome was converted from a very plain city into the most magnificent capital in the ancient world....  The Aeneid of Vergil: books I-VI, selections VII-XII - Stran 18avtor: Virgil - 1900 - 763 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | J. D. Bell - 1860 - 478 strani
...could turn a little village into a great city." Augustus Csesar, on his death-bed, claimed, "that he found Rome a city of brick, but left it a city of marble." The man of genius improves everything on which he concentrates the energy of his mind. He makes dull... | |
 | Israel Smith Clare - 1893 - 652 strani
...into the most magnificent capital in the ancient world. It was a favorite boast of the Emperor that he found Rome a city of brick, but left it a city of marble; and this he truly did, as the splendid edifices which he erected were constructed principally of the... | |
 | 1897 - 482 strani
...into the most magnificent capital in the ancient world. It was a favorite boast of the Emperor that he found Rome a city of brick, but left it a city of marble; and this he truly did, as the splendid edifices which he creeted were constructed principally of the... | |
 | 1916 - 634 strani
...into the most magnificent capital in the ancient world. It was a favorite boast of the Emperor that he found Rome a city of brick, but left it a city of marble ; and this he truly did, as the splendid edifices which he erected were constructed principally of... | |
 | Jeffrey M. Hurwit - 2000 - 412 strani
...Empire, and not least of these was the pervasive use of marble itself. When Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of brick but left it a city of marble,33 he was really saying that he had left his capital looking more like - and better able to... | |
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