building-plan

Updated: June 2, 2025

All the measures of a permanent kind that proceeded from him at the most various times assume their appropriate places in the great building-plan. We cannot therefore properly speak of isolated achievements of Caesar; he did nothing isolated.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

This building-plan the Duke had entered upon with all the eagerness which he usually attached to novelty. His gardens were destroyed his pavilions levelled his splendid stables demolished the whole pomp of his suburban demesne laid waste, cumbered with ruins, and intersected with the foundations of new buildings and cellars, and the process of levelling different lines for the intended streets.

Sir Walter Scott - Peveril of the Peak

All the measures of a permanent kind that proceeded from him at the most various times assume their appropriate places in the great building-plan. We cannot therefore properly speak of isolated achievements of Caesar; he did nothing isolated.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy