At one era in Lombard times a law was made that no marble was to be used in building, except by royal persons--which accounts for all the Lombard churches being sculptured in Saxum vivum, or free-stone.
The Capitol is the symbol of the eternal duration of the Empire to Virgil also:-- Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet, imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.
In the ninth book Virgil for once breaks through the impersonal reserve of the epic singer to claim for Nisus and Euryalus an eternity of fame,-- Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit(502).
We are informed by Seneca, [635]Scyllam saxum esse, et quidem non terribile navigantibus.
The island Seriphus was one vast rock, by the Romans called [494]saxum seriphium; and made use of as a larger kind of prison for banished persons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saxum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
