 | Lives - 1799 - 440 sidor
...to their elegant villas on the sea-coast — they compare their expeditions to the marches of Ca?sar and Alexander. Yet should a fly presume to settle...chink, they deplore their intolerable .hardships."* A people so sunken in effeminacy and sloth were not very formidable to the sturdy warriors of the north.... | |
 | Herodotus - 1812 - 468 sidor
...Roman nobility. " If," says he, (I use the version of Mr. Gibbon,) " a fly should presume to settle in the silken folds of their gilded umbrellas, should...language that they were not born in the land of the Cimmerians, the regions of eternal darkness." Ovid also chooses the vicinity of Cimmeria as the properest... | |
 | Herodotus - 1821 - 478 sidor
...Roman nobility. " If," says he, (I use the version of Mr. Gibbon,) " a fly should presume to settle in the silken folds of their gilded umbrellas, should...language that they were not born in the land of the Cimmerians, the regions of eternal darkness." Ovid also chooses the vicinity of Cimmeria as the properest... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 sidor
...the Lucrine lake CHAP. " and Cayeta, they compare their own expeditions " to the marches of Cassar and Alexander. Yet " should a fly presume to settle...folds " of their gilded umbrellas ; should a sun-beam pe" netrate through some unguarded and imperceptible " chink, they deplore their intolerable hardships,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 352 sidor
...Roman nobility. ' If,' says he (I use the version of Mr. Gibbon), ' a fly should presume to settle in the silken folds of their gilded umbrellas, should...language that they were not born in the land of the Cimmerians, the regions of eternal darkness.' Ovid also chooses the vicinity of Cimmeria as the properest... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 472 sidor
...to settle in the silken folds ut their gilded umbrellas, should a sun-beam penetrate through inn.- unguarded and imperceptible chink, they deplore their...language that they were not born In the land of the Cimmerians, the regions of eternal darkness. " Grid also chooses the vicinity of Cimmeria as the properest... | |
 | Herodotus - 1836 - 326 sidor
...Roman nobility. " If," says he, (I use the version of Mr. Gibbon,) " a fly should presume to settle in the silken folds of their gilded umbrellas, should...and lament in affected language that they were not bom in the land of the Cimmerians, the regions of eternal darkness." Ovid also chooses the vicinity... | |
 | 1840 - 382 sidor
...elegant villas, on the coast of Puteoli or Cayeta, they compare their expeditions to those of Caesar or Alexander. Yet, should a fly presume to settle on...language, that they were not born in the land of the Cimmerians, the regions of eternal darkness." Surely this was intended as a prophetic picture of some... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 370 sidor
...on the silken folds of their gilded umbrellas — should a sunbeam penetrate through some unobserved and imperceptible chink, they deplore their intolerable...language, that they were not born in the land of the Cimmerians, the region of perpetual darkness." Such was the character of the nobles of Rome at the... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1841 - 370 sidor
...villas on the seacoast of Puteoli and Cajeta, they compare their expeditions to the marches of Cresar and Alexander. Yet, should a fly presume to settle...umbrellas — should a sunbeam penetrate through some unobserved and imperceptible chink, they deplore their intolerable hardships, and lament, in affected... | |
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Caesar and Alexander. Yet should a fly presume to settle on the silken folds of their gilded umbrellas, should a sunbeam penetrate through some unguarded and imperceptible chink, they deplore their intolerable hardships, and lament in affected language... 
