quadrigae

Though for several years it has been possible to climb up the stairs that form the front facade of the Victor Emmanuel monument in order to gain views across the city, on 2 June 2007, the terrace of the quadrigae atop the monument was opened to the public amid much political fanfare.

Rome With A View at eternallycool.net 2007

If the quadrigae and winged victories are included, the height becomes 265 feet.

Rome With A View at eternallycool.net 2007

Though for several years it has been possible to climb up the stairs that form the front facade of the Victor Emmanuel monument in order to gain views across the city, on 2 June 2007, the terrace of the quadrigae atop the monument was opened to the public amid much political fanfare.

2007 August 16 archive at eternallycool.net 2007

If the quadrigae and winged victories are included, the height becomes 265 feet.

2007 August 16 archive at eternallycool.net 2007

The hills and cliffs, the parklike spaces, the pencil cypresses and the umbrella pines, the high temples on their tall podiums with winged Victories driving four-horsed quadrigae on the very crests of the pediments, the slowly greening scar of the great fire on the Viminal and upper Esquiline.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

Laomedonteae luimus periuria Troiae .... vicinae ruptis inter se legibus urbes arma ferunt; saevit toto Mars impius orbe; ut cum carceribus sese effudere quadrigae, addunt in spatio, et frustra retinacula tendens fertur equis auriga neque audit currus habenas.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

_NH_ XXXIV 71 'habet simulacrum et benignitas eius [' Praxiteles 'generosity is seen in one of his statues']; Calamidis enim quadrigae aurigam suum imposuit, ne melior in equorum effigie defecisse in homine crederetur. ipse Calamis et alias quadrigas bigasque fecit equis sine aemulo expressis '.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Roman and & reek statesmen and philosophers now embellish this opera house of Western democracy, and in symbolic irony the quadrigae fiy from one another in all four directions above the two houses, in this way giving the best external expres sion of the activities that went on inside the building.

Mein Kampf Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1925

The goals themselves have, like the decani [312] of the Zodiac, each three pinnacles, round which the swift quadrigae circle like the sun.

The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872

Here are antique mosaics, in which colored stones seem liquefied, realizing the most beautiful effects of painting -- quadrigae, warriors, arms, armor, vases, streams, all lifelike.

Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853