Both in the interior of the halls and in the external porticos we find an apparently capricious irregularity in spacing the columns.
The external porticos are no less remarkable for variety of plan.
Sages, like Gorgias or Prodicus or Protagoras, are on their way, escorted by bands of disciples, eager to engage each other in debate beneath the porticos of the Olympian Zeus.
Simonides leads us by the hand along the banks of pleasant rivers, through laurel groves, and by the porticos of sunny temples.
He may have come across Galen, when that lively medical man was pursuing his researches on the immortal Hippocrates, or entertaining a select circle, in the calm of the evening, under one of the porticos of the Heptastadion.
There was nothing particular to remind me of its supposed austerity as, after leaving the hôtel de ville, I walked along the empty porticos and out of the Tour de l'Horloge, which I have already mentioned.
It wuz drawed up handsome, with little ornaments in blue and yeller ink runnin' all round the porticos and piazzas, which wuz in red ink.
Meticus gave his to a square which he built at Athens, and the appellation of Agaptos was applied to the porticos of the stadium.
The porticos are worthy of observation: they were structures of curious work and extraordinary beauty annexed to public edifices, sacred and civil, as well for ornament as use.
The forum of Trajan, erected by the emperor Trajan, with the foreign spoils he had taken in the wars; the covering was all brass, and the porticos exceedingly beautiful.
The most remarkable were the Roman forum, built by Romulus, and adorned with porticos on all sides, by Tarquinius Priscus: This was the most ancient and most frequently used in public affairs.
The heavy, massive structures have a serious, somewhat crabbed aspect, and its somber porticos in the lower stories of the houses resemble black mouths which yawn with ennui.
Thence through the other porticos and labyrinths of walls and columns (for I can not hope to detail everything to you), we came to the Forum.
This is a large square, surrounded by lofty porticos of fluted columns, some broken, some entire, their entablatures strewed under them.
Each of the porticos has three distinct roofs raised one above the other, thus nobly contributing to the monumental effect of the architecture.
The porticos are supported by sculptured columns; and the terraces, which form a cross, have three flights of steps, at each of which are four colossal lions, reclining upon pedestals.
No professional contortionist upon the vaudeville stage can compare with these religious mendicants, who give exhibitions in the open air, or in the porticos of the temples in honor of some god and call it worship.
Two porticos or cabinets, about fifteen feet square, project into the court at the two extremities.
Its porticos were supported upon the hands of colossal statues of women, carved out of white marble with exquisite art and beauty.
Shade trees of a feathery foliage, like plumes of finest moss, guarded the entrance and afforded homes for brilliant-plumaged birds that flew about the porticos and alighted on the hands and shoulders of the ladies without fear.
At the northern end, where the porticos and the long Dromos street ran off toward the Dipylon gate, stood the shop of Clearchus the potter.
Beneath the sheltering porticoslurked bright-faced girls who pelted each passer with violets, narcissus, and hyacinths.
Jefferson also designed the five two-story temple-like pavilions including porticos and had them constructed of red brick walls with white trim and white classic columns.
The lovers of the god and his Penaean maid built the town; and in its porticos and paths and thousand retreats you will find characters and habits and sweets and kinds elsewhere impossible.
In more recent settlements care was taken to provide a rectangular space for the purpose, in which double porticos of considerable extent were built for shelter in bad weather.
Six Ionic columns bore the famed marble ceiling of great span, while two Doric porticos formed the fronts.
The Doric became restricted to porticos and peristyles, and, in double-storied interiors, to the lower order, for which important constructional functions it was fitted by the great solidity of the column.
Upon the market-places the porticos were often increased in width by a second row of columns, and in later times a dividing-wall was frequently placed between these ranges as a spina.
At last, I reached once more the colonnades at the entrance, and caught the sea-breeze in the open porticos which front San Giorgio Maggiore.
Still ascending I attained the brow of the mountain, and had nothing but the fortress of Belvedere, and two or three open porticos above me.
I will not say they belong to St. Maria Maggiore; no, they are fanes and porticos dedicated to Cybele, who delights in sylvan situations.
At the close of day, I repaired to the platform before the stately porticos of the Lateran.
A city consists of human beings, not of houses or porticos or fora empty of men.
This edifice in the Campus Martius had been constructed by Lepidus by the addition of porticos all about for the tribal elections, and Agrippa adorned it with stone tablets and paintings, naming it Julian, from Augustus.
Mourning fell on the city, terror took its lodgment in houses and in hearts, but porticos were crowned with ivy and flowers, for it was not permitted to show sorrow for the dead.
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