When he reached the ground, a rush was made at him by the mob; but his supporters rallied round him, and Tiberius himself rushed from the Rostra to prevent the act of violence.
Meanwhile sumptuary laws continued to be promulgated from the Rostra and accepted by the people.
The point of order raised, as usual, a heated discussion; the tribunes gathered on the Rostra to argue the matter out.
The relative size of the rostrum decreases with the decrease in size of the skull; consequently smaller shrews have relatively smaller rostra (see fig.
Those shrews are reddish, large-skulled, large-toothed, and have rostrathat are large in proportion to the size of the skull as a whole.
Lar Tolumnius, the king of Veii, slew four ambassadors of the Roman people, at Fidenae, whose statues were standing in the rostra till within my recollection.
This was the reason why you decreed to him a statue in the rostra with an honourable inscription, and why you voted him a triumph in his absence.
Yes, he was that Tuditanus who used to put on a cloak and buskins, and then go and scatter money from therostra among the people.
We see in the rostra the statue of Cnaeus Octavius, an illustrious and great man, the first man who brought the consulship into that family, which afterwards abounded in illustrious men.
And perhaps we have been told where theRostra stood, and the Rostra Julia, and that the queer fragment of masonry by the arch is supposed to be the 'Umbilicus,' the centre of the Roman world.
Their hypothesis seems to be based upon the discovery of two beautiful bas-reliefs of the age of Vespasian, which were excavated near the Rostra Vetera in the Forum.
Rostra or speaker’s platform in the Forum (adorned with the beaks of captured ships).
Another rostra was constructed about the same time at the opposite end, in front of the new Temple of Divus Iulius.
These two dials were fixed on pillars behind the Rostra in the Forum, the most convenient place for regulating public business, and there they remained even in the time of Cicero[409].
Or that during this period also he was drunk and abusive and in the assemblies would frequently vomit the remains of yesterday's debauch on the rostra itself, in the midst of his harangues?
For this the senate voted eulogies and a statue to Juventius and a public funeral, but Lepidus they deprived of his image which stood upon the rostra and made him an enemy.
The rostra are probably meant to represent temporary wooden constructions.
These may have belonged to pedestals upon which statues were placed, or in the case of those near the arch of Severus to the later Rostra and Graecostasis, and in the case of those near the corner of the Basilica Julia to the Arch of Tiberius.
It was the feast of the Lykaea among the Romans, which they call Lupercalia,[348] and Caesar dressed in a triumphal robe and sitting on the Rostra in the Forum viewed the runners.
Accordingly Caesar rose from the Rostra much annoyed, and taking the robe from his neck called out that he offered his throat to any one who would have it.
He ordered the head and hands to be placed above the Rostra on the place whence the orators spoke, a sight that made the Romans shudder, who thought that they saw, not the face of Cicero, but an image of the soul of Antonius.
The Rostra were in the Forum, and in a position between the Comitium and that part of the Forum which was appropriated to the meeting of the Roman tribes.
He stood up in the Rostra to make the usual address to the people on laying down his authority.
The magistrates and others who had formerly filled the highest offices, carried the bier from the Rostra into the Forum.
Octavius Reatinus died in his youth, while he was in full practice: but he ascended the rostra with more assurance, than ability.
Silius having been a senator and a man of other official standing, the procession passes from the Caelian Hill along the Sacred Way to the Forum, as far as the Rostra or speaking-platform.
But scarcely was he let loose when he returned and made his way to the Rostra with loud shouts, urging the citizens to aid him.
Cæsar was a spectator, being seated at theRostra on a golden chair in a triumphal robe; and Antonius was one of those who ran in the sacred race, for he was consul.
The scholars sat in close rows before the very rostra from whence Paolo had uttered with his young lips so much venerable wisdom.
On this day also, did a scholar ascend the rostrato greet in a well turned latin Ode the General as the honored guest of the house and to praise his virtues.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rostra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
