stern-lines

Updated: May 21, 2025

I must confess, however, that I was more interested in the modern aspects of this region than in its glorious past, for, standing upon the massive walls of the Roman city, I looked down upon a panorama of power such as Diocletian had never pictured in his wildest dreams, for, moored in a long and impressive row, their stern-lines made fast to the Molo, was a line of war-ships flying the flags of England, France, Italy, and the United States.

E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell - The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean