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The doctor quoted: "'Gisors, a town of 4,000 inhabitants in the department of Eure, mentioned in Caesar's Commentaries: Caesaris ostium, then Caesartium, Caesortium, Gisortium, Gisors. I shall not take you to visit the old Roman encampment, the remains of which are still in existence."
The doctor quoted: "'Gisors, a town of 4,000 inhabitants in the department of Eure, mentioned in Caesar's Commentaries: Caesaris ostium, then Caesartium, Caesortium, Gisortium, Gisors. I shall not take you to visit the old Roman encampment, the remains of which are still in existence."
He knew all now; and, by an inevitable impulse, his throat began to sing aloud words that, as he sang, opened for the first time as flowers telling their secret to the sun. O Salutaris Hostia Qui coeli pandis ostium. . . .
Marys Bay, et deinceps versus septentrionem per directam lineam introitum sive ostium magnae illius stationis navium trajicientem," etc., "ad fluvium vulgo nomine Sanctae Crucis appellatum."
This was just outside the Ostian gate, an archway in the great wall which surrounded Rome, through which the road led to the town of Ostium and to the sea. Just outside this gate, to show that they were no longer worthy of being Romans and living within its walls, criminals were executed. And here many Christian martyrs lost their lives. Prisca was one of these, for here she was beheaded.
This is because no Hellenic Pompeii has yet been discovered, but thanks to the silent city close to the beautiful Bay of Naples, the Latin house is known from ostium to porticus, from the front door to the back garden wall. "The streets of Pompeii must have had a charm unapproached by those of any city now in existence. The stores, indeed, were wretched little dens.
Ostium. "There is no need for that," remarked the Vestal, who never before in her life had experienced such an unaccountable sense of disquietude. "It is my habit always to push the bolt," said the slave, bowing, and leading the way toward the peristylium. "You are Titus Denter's slave?" asked Fabia. The other nodded. "And your master is a very sick man?"
John xvi. 7: "Expedit vobis ut Ego vadam; si enim non abiero, Paracletus non veniet ad vos." Ch. xxviii. section 4. St. Matt. iii. 17: "Hic est Filius Meus dilectus, in quo Mihi complacui." St. John x. 7, 9: "Ego sum ostium." See St. John of the Cross, Mount Carmel, bk. iii. ch. i. p. 212. Ch. xii. sections 5, 7. Ch. xv. section 21. Ch. xx. section 2. St.
On the way from the second antechamber, called the ostium, to the atrium itself, Vinicius said, "Hast noticed that thee doorkeepers are without chains?" "This is a wonderful house," answered Petronius, in an undertone. "Of course it is known to thee that Pomponia Græcina is suspected of entertaining that Eastern superstition which consists in honoring a certain Chrestos.
Never was a priest better up in his calling than this young man. The aged statesman, resolved not to erase his past until the very last hour, met all the entreaties made to him with a sullen "not yet." The Sto ad ostium etpulso had to be brought into play with great tact.
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