ZenobiaJohn W. Lovell, 1866 |
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... Calpurnius done , and we were comparatively happy in the thought that they had escaped by a vol untary death the shame of being used as footster's by the haughty Sapor , and the princes of his court But a rumor reached us a few days ...
... Calpurnius done , and we were comparatively happy in the thought that they had escaped by a vol untary death the shame of being used as footster's by the haughty Sapor , and the princes of his court But a rumor reached us a few days ...
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... Calpurnius is yet living . We learn , obscurely , that being favorably distinguished and secretly favored by the son of Sapor , he was persuaded to live , and wait for the times to open a way for his escape . You may imagine both my ...
... Calpurnius is yet living . We learn , obscurely , that being favorably distinguished and secretly favored by the son of Sapor , he was persuaded to live , and wait for the times to open a way for his escape . You may imagine both my ...
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... Calpurnius , or leave my own body there for that beast to batten on . It is now indeed thirteen years since Calp arnius left me , a thild in Rome , to join the Emperor in that ill - fated expedition . But it is with the distinctness of ...
... Calpurnius , or leave my own body there for that beast to batten on . It is now indeed thirteen years since Calp arnius left me , a thild in Rome , to join the Emperor in that ill - fated expedition . But it is with the distinctness of ...
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... Calpurnius has been distinguished by the son of Sapor , his lot , doubtless , has been greatly lightened , and he may now be living as a Persian prince . My counsel is , therefore , that the truth in this regard be first obtained ...
... Calpurnius has been distinguished by the son of Sapor , his lot , doubtless , has been greatly lightened , and he may now be living as a Persian prince . My counsel is , therefore , that the truth in this regard be first obtained ...
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... Calpurnius . That was but too true , he said , which had been reported to us , that whenever the proud Sapor went forth to mount his horse , the Emperor was brought , in the face of the whole court , and of the populace who crowded ...
... Calpurnius . That was but too true , he said , which had been reported to us , that whenever the proud Sapor went forth to mount his horse , the Emperor was brought , in the face of the whole court , and of the populace who crowded ...
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Zenobia: Or, The Fall of Palmyra in Letters of L. Maulius Piso, from Palmyra ... William Ware Vista de fragmentos - 1979 |
Términos y frases comunes
Antiochus arms army Aurelian beauty behold believe brother Cæsars Calpurnius captivity Christian countenance cried Ctesiphon Curtius death Demetrius desert divine doctrine doubt dromedary dwell East Ecbatana Emesa Emperor empire enemy faith Fausta fear feel fell friends Gallienus gates glory gods Gracchus Greek Hadad hand happy head hear heard heart honor hope Hormisdas horse immortality Isaac kingdom lance letter live Livia Longinus look Lucius Lucius Piso manner Milo mind never noble numbers Odenatus once Otho palace Palmyra Palmyrene passed Persian philosophy Piso plain Plato pleasure Portico prince Princess Julia Probus Queen reign religion replied Roman Rome ruin Sapor scene seat seemed seen slave soldiers soon soul spirit stood streets sure tell thee thing thou thought throne towers trust truth turned Vabalathus Valerian voice walls whole woman words Zabdas Zenobia Zosimus
Pasajes populares
Página 21 - The land was every whe,re richly cultivated, and a happier peasantry, as far as the eye of the traveller could judge, nowhere exists. The most luxuriant valleys of our own Italy are not more crowded with the evidences of plenty and contentment. Upon drawing near to the ancient Baalbec, I found on inquiry of our guide, that we were not to pass through it, as I had hoped, nor even very near it, not nearer than between two and three miles.
Página 278 - ... happened not long. For when the Emperor's pride had been sufficiently gratified, and just there where he came over against the steps of the capitol, he himself, crowned as he was with the diadem of universal empire, descended from his chariot, and, unlocking the chains of gold that bound the limbs of the Queen, led and placed her in her own chariot — that chariot in which she had fondly hoped herself to enter Rome in triumph — between Julia and Livia.
Página 260 - ... walls of the temples of every faith, — in all places, the most sacred as well as the most common, lay the mangled carcasses of the wretched inhabitants. None, apparently, had been spared. The aged were there, with their bald or silvered heads, little children and infants, women, the young, the beautiful, the good, — all were there, slaughtered in every imaginable way, and presenting to the eye spectacles of horror and of grief enough to break the heart and craze the brain. For one could not...
Página 24 - I contemplated the whole, to distinguish the line which divided the one from the other. It was all city and all country, all country and all city. Those which lay before me I was ready to believe were the Elysian Fields. I imagined that I saw under my feet the dwellings of purified men and of gods. Certainly they were too glorious for the mere earth-born. There was a central point, however, which chiefly fixed my attention, where the vast Temple of the Sun, stretched upward its thousand columns of...
Página 276 - But why do I detain you with these things, when it is of one only that you wish to hear. I cannot tell you with what impatience I waited for that part of the procession to approach where were Zenobia and Julia. I thought its line would stretch on forever.
Página 260 - ... on their tongues, their quiet houses were invaded, and resisting or unresisting, they all fell together beneath the murderous knives of the savage foe. What shrieks then rent and filled the air — what prayers of agony went up to the gods for life to those whose ears on mercy's side were adders' — what piercing supplications that life might be taken and honor spared ! The apartments of the rich and the noble presented the most harrowing spectacles, where the inmates, delicately nurtured and...
Página 24 - For the city proper is so studded with groups of lofty palm trees, shooting up among its temples and palaces, and on the other hand, the plain in its immediate vicinity is so thickly adorned with magnificent structures of the purest marble, that it is not easy, nay it is impossible at the distance at which I contemplated the whole, to distinguish the line which divided the one from the other.
Página 23 - I urged forward my steed, and in a moment the most wonderful prospect I ever beheld—no, I cannot except even Rome—burst upon my sight. Flanked by hills of considerable elevation on the East, the city filled the whole plain below as far as the eye could reach, both toward the North and toward the South. This immense plain was all one vast and boundless city. It seemed to...
Página 78 - If the gods, dear Marcus and Lucilia, came down to dwell upon earth, they could not but choose Palmyra for their seat, both on account of the general beauty of the city and its surrounding plains, and the exceeding sweetness and serenity of its climate. It is a joy here only to sit still and live. The air, always loaded with perfume, seems to convey essential nutriment to those who breathe it ; and its hue, especially when a morning or evening sun shines through it, is of that golden cast, which,...
Página 25 - ... lofty towers, for number and for form beyond my power to describe. These buildings, as well as the walls of the city, being all either of white marble or of some stone as white, and being everywhere in their whole extent interspersed, as I have already said, -with multitudes of overshadowing palm-trees, perfectly filled and satisfied my sense of beauty, and made me feel for the moment as if in such a scene I should love to dwell, and there end my days.