 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 sider
...the grains of the place, [the Virgin Mary, say Cedrenus and Zonaras] was erected on a triumphal car. The guards, carrying white tapers, and clothed in...and with grateful reverence adored the memory of his predecessor. At the festival of the dedication, an edict, engraved on a column of marble, bestowed... | |
 | Ernest Silvanus Appleyard - 1851 - 140 sider
...bearing in the right hand a small image of the genius of the place, was elevated on a triumphal car ; the guards carrying white tapers, and clothed in their...procession as it moved through the Hippodrome. When it came opposite to the throne of the reigning emperor, he rose from his seat and with grateful reverence... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 sider
...bearing in its right hand a small image of the genius of the place, was erected on a triumphal car. The guards, carrying white tapers, and clothed in...When it was opposite to the throne of the reigning 63 Julian (Orat. ip 8) celebrates Constantinople as not less superior to all other cities than she... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1867 - 1132 sider
...bearing in its right hand a small imago of the genius of the place, was erected on a triumphal car. The guards, carrying white tapers, and clothed in...seat, and with grateful reverence adored the memory of hie predecessor." The rites of inauguration lasted 40 days. The Turks call the city Istamboul or Stamboul.... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 sider
...condemned." The new city was dedicated on the 22d of May, AD 330, with great pomp and festivity, and an edict, engraved on a column of marble, bestowed the title of Second, or New Rome on it.* But the popular voice gave it the name of the City of Constantino (Constautinopolis),... | |
 | James H. Braund - 1870 - 524 sider
...often as the birthday of the city returned, the statue of Constantino was erected on a triumphal car ; the guards, carrying white tapers and clothed in their...reigning emperor, he rose from his seat, and with a grateful reverence adored the memory of his predecessor. Rome, the venerable parent, still maintained... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - 1878 - 1146 sider
...clothed in the richest apparel, upon each returning birthday of the city. When this arrived opposite the throne of the reigning emperor, he rose from his...and with grateful reverence adored the memory of his predecessor. At the festival of the dedication, an edict, engraved on a column of marble, bestowed... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 sider
...bearing in his right hand a small image of the genius of the place, was erected on a triumphal car. The guards carrying white tapers, and clothed in their...and with grateful reverence adored the memory of his predecessor. At the festival of the dedication, an edict, engraved on a column of marble, bestowed... | |
 | Telemachus Thomas Timayenis - 1880 - 500 sider
...forty days, for the most part celebrated in the vast and world-renowned race-course. An edict also, engraved on a column of marble, bestowed the title of SECOND or NEW ROME on the city of Constantine ; but the name of Constantinople has prevailed over that epithet, and... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - 1880 - 980 sider
...returning birthday of the city. When this arrived opposite the throne of the reigning emperor, he rode from his seat, and, with grateful reverence, adored the memory of his predecessor. At the festival of the dedication an edict, engraved on a column of marble, bestowed the... | |
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Constantine, framed by his order, of gilt wood, and bearing in its right hand a small image of the genius of the place, was erected on a triumphal car. The guards, carrying white tapers and clothed in their richest apparel, accompanied the solemn procession... 
