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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Chronological Index to Dateable Monuments (search)
1; changes the head of the Colossus of Nero, 130; restores scaena of the Theatre of Marcellus, 513; begins the Amphitheatrum Flavium (Colosseum), 6; terminal stones of Tiber banks, 538. 71Aqueducts restored, 22, 413, 417. 75Extends Pomerium, 395. Forum and Temple of Peace begun and dedicated in 75 A.D., 386. 79(before). Temple of Augustus burnt, 62, 84. 79-81 Reign of Titus: Titus begins Temple of Vespasian, 556: and Thermae, 533. 79Titus restores Aqua Marcia, 25, 417. 80Inaugural games in Amphitheatrum Flavium (Colosseum), 6. Great fire of Titus: destroys Capitoline Temple, 300; Porticus of Octavia, 427; and its library, 85; Temple of Isis, 284; Theatrum of Balbus, 513; scaena of Pompey's Theatre, 517; Thermae of Agrippa, 518; Pantheon, 383; Saepta, 460, and Diribitorium, 151; Domus Tiberiana, 192; Basilica Neptuni, 81; Domus Aurea on Palatine, 172, 195. 80-81Arches in Circus Maximus, 45, 119. 81Titus repairs Aqua Claudia, 2
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
n at the foot of the Grampian hills, which put him in possession of the whole of Britain as far north as the northern boundary of Perth and Argyle. His first campaign (A. D. 78) was occupied in the reconquest of Mona (Anglesea), and the Ordovices (North Wales), the strongholds of the Druids; and the remainder of this year, with the next, was given to making the before-mentioned arrangements for the security of the Roman dominion in the already conquered parts of Britain. The third campaign (A. D. 80) carried him northwards to the Taus, * As to whether the Taus was the Solway Frith or the Frith of Tay, see Chalmers' Caledonia. probably the Solway Frith; and the fourth (A. D. 81) was taken up in fortifying and taking possession of this tract, and advancing as far north as the Friths of Clyde and Forth. In the fifth campaign (A. D. 82), he was engaged in subduing the tribes on the promontory opposite Ireland. In the sixth (A. D. 83), he explored with his fleet and land forces the coast of
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), E'vodus (search)
E'vodus （*Eu)/odos), a distinguished engraver of gems under the emperor Titus, A. D. 80. A beryl by him, bearing the head of Titus's daughter Julia, is preserved at Florence. (Bracci, Tab. 73; Müller, Denkm. d. alt. Kunst, T. lxix. No. 381.) [P
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), La'mia (search)
La'mia 3. L. Aelius Lamia Aemilianus, belonged originally, as we see from the last name, to the gens Aemilia, and was adopted into the gens Aelia. He was consul suffectus in A. D. 80 in the reign of Titus, and was originally married to Domitia Longina, the daughter of Corbulo; but during the lifetime of Vespasian he was deprived of her by Domitian, who first lived with her as his mistress and subsequently married her. [DOMITIA LONGINA.] Lamia was put to death by Domitian after his accession to the throne. (D. C. 66.3; Suet. Dom. 1, 10; Juv. 4.154.) Lamia's full name was L. Aelius Plautius Lamia. (Marini, Atti degli fratr. arv. i. tav. 23.25, p. cxxx. and 222.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ndustry displayed by Loyd and Dodwell in adjusting the chronology of Martial, but the recent labours of Clinton are much more satisfactory. It is clear from the introductory dedication and notices in prose and verse, that the different books were collected and published by the author, sometimes singly and sometimes several at one time. The " Liber de Spectaculis" and the first nine books of the regular series involve a great number of historical allusions, extending from the games of Titus (A. D. 80) down to the return of Domitian from the Sarmatian expedition, in January, A. D. 94. The second book could not have been written until after the commencement of the Dacian war (2.2), that is, not before A. D. 86, nor the sixth until after the triumph over the Dacians and Germans (A. D. 91); the seventh was written while the Sarmatian war, which began in A. D. 93, was still in progress, and reaches to the end of that year. The eighth book opens in January, A. D. 94, the ninth also refers to
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Polycarpus (search)
birth is not known, and we can only determine it by approximation. At the time of his martyrdom, to which various dates are assigned, he had been a Christian eighty-six years. Now if we adopt for the present Tillemont's date of his martyrdom, A. D. 166, and suppose Polycarp to have been of Christian parents, or at least educated from childhood in the Christian faith, and so interpret the eighty-six years, as several eminent critics do, of the term of his natural life, his birth will fall in A. D. 80; but if with other critics we suppose him to have been converted at a riper age, and compute the eighty-six years from the time of his conversion, his birth must be placed at a considerably earlier period. A vague passage in the Latin text of Polycarp's epistle to the Philippians (c. xi.), which we think merely indicates that the church at Smyrna was not in existence when the Apostle Paul wrote his epistle to the Philippians, has been adduced to prove that Polycarp was born before that time
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
scription of them in a letter addressed to Tacitus by the younger Plinius. [TACITUS.] Titus endeavoured to repair the ravages of this great eruption : he sent two consulars with money to restore the ruined towns, and he applied to this purpose the property of those who had been destroyed, and had left no next of kin. He also went himself to see the ravages which had been caused by the eruption and the earthquakes. During his absence a fire was burning at Rome for three days and three nights A. D. 80 : it destroyed the Capitol, the library of Augustus, the theatre of Pompeius, and other public buildings, besides many houses. The emperor declared that he should consider all the loss as his own, and he set about repairing it with great activity : he took even the decorations of the imperial residences, and sold them to raise money. The eruption of Vesuvius was followed by a dreadful pestilence, which called for fresh exertions on the part of the benevolent emperor. In this year he compl
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Vini'cius (search)
Vini'cius 7. T. Vinicius Julianus, consul suffectus under Titus, A. D. 80. (Fasti.)
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
ere simplicity of outline by which their public structures were characterized. The Romans made very free use of them. The Cloaca Maxima, or Great Sewer, of Rome, is the oldest known example of Roman workmanship; it is believed to have been constructed more than five hundred years before the Christian era, and is yet in a perfect state of preservation, still continuing to perform its original functions. That people also used arches as triumphal monuments; the arch of Titus was erected A. D. 80; that of Trajan, A. D. 114; and of Constantine, A. D. 312. The Gothic style, which originated about the ninth century, and soon spread over the whole of Europe, was emphatically the style of arches. Its special characteristics are the clustered pillar and the pointed arch. The mediaeval masons treated them with a boldness and freedom unknown to the builders of Ancient Rome. Their constructions display an astonishing amount of practical science, and clearly show that their taste was equal
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
heated composition, as a lead-bath or sand-bath. Baths were long used in Oriental countries, and traveled by the route of Egypt to Greece. Homer mentions the use of the bath as an old custom. From Greece they reached Rome, imported, as it is said, by Agrippa. The thermae (hot baths) were very splendid, and adorned for a people who spent much leisure among the baths and their voluptuous accessories. The marble group of Laocoon was found in 1506 in the Baths of Titus, erected about A. D. 80; and the Farnese Hercules in the Baths of Caracalla, erected A. D. 217. A rollicking Greek thus writes: — And lately baths, too, have been introduced, — things which formerly men would not have permitted to exist inside a city. And Antiphanes points out their injurious character: — Plague take the bath! just see the plight In which the thing has left me; It seems t'have boil'd me up, and quite Of strength and nerve bereft me. Don't touch me! Curst was he who taught a Man to <
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