Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 20, 2025
He leaped from the pulpit, and fell in the midst of the flames, where he remained on his knees with folded hands till he was suffocated. In the Forum a man was seen working with a miner's iron bar at a rubbish-heap which should cover him: "Say to the mountains, Cover us," he sang. From the Pons Sublicius a young couple sprang into the river, locked in an embrace which death could not loosen.
At the Porta Trigemina the unguarded portal had stood open; there was none to stop them. They passed by the Pons Sublicius, and skirted the Aventine. Stones and billets of wood began to whistle past their ears, the missiles of the on-rushing multitude. At last the wharves! Out in the darkness stood the huge bulk of a Spanish lumberman; but there was no refuge there.
Besides, the bridge at the Porta Trigenia, opposite the temple of the Bona Dea, did not exist yet, hence whoso wished to go beyond the Tiber had to push through to the Pons Sublicius, that is, to pass around the Aventine through a part of the city covered now with one sea of flame. That was an impossibility.
Antonius who, despite his fall, had come down upon a coil of rope and so escaped broken bones and serious bruises was the first to sense the great peril of even their present situation. "In a few moments," he remarked, casting a glance down the river, "we shall be under the Pons Sublicius, and we shall either be easily stopped and taken, or crushed with darts as we pass by.
Ancus fortified Mons Janiculus, the hill on the western bank of the Tiber, for the protection of the city. He connected it with Rome by the Pons Sublicius, the earliest of the Roman bridges, built on piles. The Janiculum was not much occupied by residences until the time of Augustus. Ancus founded Ostia, at the mouth of the Tiber, which became the port of Rome.
But Antonius never withdrew his eye from the line of dark weatherbeaten warehouses that stretched down to the river's edge on the north bank just above the Pons Sublicius. "Row," he exhorted his companions, "row! as life is dear! Row as never before!"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking