Rostra

Some of the ships of Antium were taken into the Roman docks, others were burnt and their beaks (rostra) were fastened on the front of a raised gallery which was constructed at the end of the Forum, and which from this circumstance was called the Rostra.

The History of Rome, Vol. II 1905

In front of us we can see over the heads of the crowd the Rostra at the farther end of the Forum, where an orator is perhaps addressing a crowd (_contio_) on some political question of the moment, and giving some occupation to the idlers in the throng; and to the right of the Rostra is the Comitium or assembling-place of the people, with the Curia, the ancient meeting-hall of the senate.

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

In place of the word "Rostra," in the fifth line of this chapter, read "tribunal."

Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

The Rostra were the beaks of the Antiate galleys, with which, it is said, this place was ornamented at the close of the Latin war (Livy, 8, c.

Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

The charge sheet included the torrid accusation that she had even had sex on the Rostra, the platform from which orators spoke to the crowds in the Forum and from which her father had proclaimed his laws on marriage and adultery in 18 BC.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

From the Colosseum to the Ludus Magnus, from the Forum Caesar to the Arch of Septimius Severus, from the Rostra to the Basilica Julia, you can get up close to them all.

An invitation from the mayor of Rome: Come see Ancient Rome in 3D 2008

When thou art calling out on the Rostra, hast thou forgotten, man, what these things are? —

The Meditations 2004

Rostra he had made an eulogy on Marcus Crassus, with much applause, and within a few days after again as publicly reproached him,

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Antony was running with the rest; but, omitting the old ceremony, twining a garland of bay round a diadem, he ran up to the Rostra, and, being lifted up by his companions, would have put it upon the head of Caesar, as if by that ceremony he were declared king.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

The Romans were celebrating their festival, called the Lupercalia, when Caesar, in his triumphal habit, and seated above the Rostra in the market-place, was a spectator of the sports.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003