oak-stools

Updated: June 9, 2025

Passing through a beautiful copse wood, where cyclamens grew in lavish profusion, forming little rosy clusters about the oak-stools and diffusing a faint spicy smell through the warm air, we came out at one of the gates of the city into open ground. This gate is simply a gap in a shapeless mound, with traces of an ancient roadway passing through it and fragments of walls on either side.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood