| Pliny (the Younger.) - 1807 - 424 ページ
...commands ; and I should, indeed, have claimed the task if you had not enjoined it. He was, at that time, with the fleet under his command, at Misenum....unusual size and shape. He had just returned from enjoying the benefit of the sun, * In the gulf of Naples. and, after bathing in cold water, and taking... | |
| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 ページ
...your commands; and I should, indeed, have claimed the task if you had not enjoined it. He was at that time with the fleet under his command at Misenum*....unusual size and shape. He had just returned from enjoying the benefit of the sun, and after bathing in cold water, and taking a slight repast, was retired... | |
| Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 592 ページ
...you had not enjoined it. He was at that time with the fleet under his command at Misenum*. On the 23d of August, about one in the afternoon, my mother desired...He had just returned from taking the benefit of the sunf, and after bathing himself in cold water, and taking a slight repast, had retired to his study... | |
| Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 590 ページ
...you had not enjoined it. He was at that time with the fleet under his command at Misenum*. On the 23d of August, about one in the afternoon, my mother desired...had just returned from taking the benefit of the sun f, and after bathing himself in cold water, and taking a slight repast, had retired to his study :... | |
| Edwin Atherstone - 1824 - 358 ページ
...your commands ; and should, indeed, have claimed the task if you had not enjoined it. He was at that time with the fleet under his command at Misenum....unusual size and shape. He had just returned from taking (he benefit of the sun, and after bathing himself in cold water and taking a slight repast, was retired... | |
| Picture gallery - 1824 - 234 ページ
...the fleet under his command, at Misenum, in the gulf of Naples. On the twenty-fourth of August, at about one in the afternoon, my mother desired him...observe a cloud, which appeared of a very unusual shape and size. He had just returned from enjoying the benefit of the sun; and, after bathing in cold... | |
| Sarah Atkins - 1825 - 178 ページ
...one o'clock in the afternoon, his sister, Pliny the Younger's mother, desired him to observe a cloud, of a very unusual size and shape. He had just returned from taking the benefit of the sun ; and, having bathed himself in cold water and taken a slight repast, had retired to his study. He, however,... | |
| Charles Room - 1828 - 108 ページ
...Younger to his friend Tacitus, that, at the time when the eruption took place, his uncle was stationed with the fleet under his command at Misenum. " On the 24th. of August (says this writer) about one in the afternoon, my mother desired him to observe a cloud, which appeared... | |
| 1835 - 298 ページ
...Herculaneum and Pompeii were destroyed. GREAT ERUPTIOK OP MOUWT VESUVIUS. " Pliny the Elder was at that time with the fleet under his command at Misenum....unusual size and shape. He had just returned from enjoying the benefit of the sun; and after bathing in cold water, and taking a slight repast, was retired... | |
| Charles Anthon - 1841 - 664 ページ
...Italy, Gaul, Spain, and Africa. We will give the rest of the account in the words of his nephew : " On the 24th of August, about one in the afternoon, my mother desired, him to observe a cloud which anPLINTOS. peared of а тегу unusual size and shape. He had just returned from taking the benefit... | |
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