half-arching

Updated: July 27, 2026

Already news of the chase had gone before them, and, as Drusus followed his friends under the half-arching shadows of the tall tenement houses, drunken pedlers and ribald women howled out their wishes of success, precisely as though they were in a race-course. Now the dirty streets were left behind and the fatigued runners panted up the slopes of the Janiculum, toward the gardens of Cæsar.

William Stearns Davis - A Friend of Cæsar : A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. : Time, 50-47 B.C.