His villas were dismantled, his town house pulled down, and a vote of the people obtained by Clodius for the consecration of its site as a _templum_ dedicated to Liberty, and a scheme was formed and the work actually commenced for occupying part of it by an extension of an existing porticus or colonnade (the _porticus ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)
The other apse, for this is possibly the right meaning to assign to "porticus" in the following quotation, would have contained the altar of St. Paul, and the tomb of ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Derived from the Greek "portico" and the Latin "porticus," the porch was surely known in some form during those historical eras. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We have indications that this cryptoporticos wall is preserved in our excavation area east of the porticus wall as we are at a depth where we can see the upper row of mortared tiles along the entire porticos wall. ❋ Unknown (2003)
But first he had to get himself elected-don the specially chalked, snow-white toga of the candidate and move among the electors in every marketplace and basilica in Rome, not to mention arcades and colonnades, guilds and colleges, the porticus and the portico. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)
Other men, thought Pompey contemptuously, might build a basilica or a temple or a porticus, but Sulla builds a monument to Rome's bureaucracy! ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)
The _porticus Catuli_ had been, at any rate, partly demolished by Clodius to make way for his larger scheme of building, which was to take in part of Cicero's "site." ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)
Cicero (_de Domo_, § 102) certainly implies that Clodius had, at any rate, partly pulled down the _porticus Catuli_, in order to build something on a larger scale, which was to take in some of Cicero's site. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)
A _crypto porticus_ would thus be formed on the two longer sides of the bath, but the _schola_ on the east and west ends was open to the sky. ❋ Charles E. Davis (N/A)
[24] "Itinerarium Cambriæ," b.i. chap.v. [25] "Ut qui modo linguam abnuebant, eloquentiam concupiscerent: inde etiam habitus nostri honor, et frequens toga; paullatimque discessum et dilinimenta vitiorum, porticus et balnea, et conviviorum elegantiam." ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)
Canterbury, was the projection of _porticus_, porches or side chapels, from the nave. ❋ Unknown (1912)
So, too, his vivid and clearly-cut descriptions of nature in single lines and phrases stand out by themselves like golden tesserae in a mosaic, each distinct in a glittering atmosphere -- _qua tumidus rigat arva Nilus; opacam porticus excipiebat Arcton; nec prata canis albicant pruinis_ -- a hundred phrases like these, all exquisitely turned, and all with the same effect of detachment, which makes them akin to sculpture, rather than painting or music. ❋ Unknown (1902)
In my solitary and retired imagination (Neque enim cum porticus, aut me lectulus accepit, desum mihi) I remember I am not alone, and therefore forget not to contemplate Him and His Attributes who is ever with me, especially those two mighty ones, His Wisdom and Eternity; with the one ❋ Harold Begbie (1900)
It was very lofty, and had many porches, or apses (_porticus_ may mean either), and thirty altars. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Hence its name of _porticus pontificum_ (the aisle of the pontiffs). ❋ Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1888)
"Popes 'Corner," or _porticus pontificum_, almost side by side with ❋ Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1888)
And I see still Mr. James's figure strolling along the terrace which roofed the crypto-porticus of the Roman villa, beside the professor -- the short coat, the summer hat, the smooth-shaven, finely cut face, now alive with talk and laughter, now shrewdly, one might say coldly, observant; the face of a satirist -- but so human! ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
Naples, the Latin house is known from ostium to porticus, from the front door to the back garden wall. ❋ Charles Morris (1877)
Gives leave to pull down a _porticus_ behind the Baths of Turasius at ❋ Senator Cassiodorus (1872)
Thereupon they descended into a long crypto-porticus, through the breaches of which the sun now casts bright rays. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)
