 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin - 1896 - 330 pages
...before the arrival of that man was the most ornamented of all, sacred to Minerva. At the end of this island is a fountain of sweet water, the name of which...of incredible size, very full of fish, which would _be entirely overwhelmed by the waves of the sea, if it were not protected from the sea by a rampart... | |
 | William Agnew Paton - Sicily (Italy) - 1897 - 524 pages
...like manner was the spring enclosed in the time of Cicero. He tells us that in the island of Ortygia " is a fountain of sweet water, the name of which is Arethusa, of incredible flow, very full of fish, which would be entirely overwhelmed by the sea were not its waters protected... | |
 | Literature - 1900 - 454 pages
...before the arrival of that man was the most ornamented of all, sacred to Minerva. At the end of this island is a fountain of sweet water, the name of which...forum, most beautiful porticoes, a highly decorated town hall, a most spacious senate house, and a superb temple of Jupiter Olympus; and the other districts... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 462 pages
...before the arrival of that man was the most ornamented of all, sacred to Minerva. At the end of this island is a fountain of sweet water, the name of which...forum, most beautiful porticoes, a highly decorated town hall, a most spacious senate house, and a superb temple of Jupiter Olympus; and the other districts... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 448 pages
...before the arrival of that man was the most ornamented of all, sacred to Minerva. At the end of this island is a fountain of sweet water, the name of which...forum, most beautiful porticoes, a highly decorated town hall, a most spacious senate house, and a superb temple of Jupiter Olympus; and the other districts... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 418 pages
...before the arrival of that man was the most ornamented of all, sacred to Minerva. At the end of this island is a fountain of sweet water, the name of which...forum, most beautiful porticoes, a highly decorated town hall, a most spacious senate house, and a superb temple of Jupiter Olympus; and the other districts... | |
 | James Reuel Smith - Mythology, Classical - 1922 - 766 pages
...one of these, called the island, it being separated from the rest by a narrow arm of the sea, there is a fountain of sweet water; the name of which is...the waves of the sea if it were not protected from them by a rampart and a dam of stone." The modern Syracuse covers only the area of the old island of... | |
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Diana, and the other one, which before the arrival of that man was the most ornamented of all, sacred to Minerva. At the end of this island is a fountain of sweet water, the name of which is Arethusa, of incredible size, very full of fish, which would... 