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" Though it was now morning, the light was exceedingly faint and languid ; the buildings all around us tottered, and though we stood upon open ground, yet, as the place was narrow and confined, there was no remaining there without certain and great danger... "
The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks - Page 303
by Pliny (the Younger.) - 1809
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 9

Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 pages
...went on with my author. Though it was now morning, the light was still exceedingly faint and doubtful; the buildings all around us tottered, and though we...without imminent danger : we therefore resolved to quit -the town. A panic-stricken crowd followed us, and (as to a mind distracted with terror every...
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Letters and Treatises of Cicero and Pliny

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (the Younger) - Friendship - 1909 - 460 pages
...went on with my author. Though it was now morning, the light was still exceedingly faint and doubtful; the buildings all around us tottered, and though we...without imminent danger: we therefore resolved to quit the town. A panic-stricken crowd followed us, and (as to a mind distracted with terror every suggestion...
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Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Friendship - 1909 - 532 pages
...went on with my author. Though it was now morning, the light was still exceedingly faint and doubtful; the buildings all around us tottered, and though we...without imminent danger: we therefore resolved to quit the town. A panic-stricken crowd followed us, and (as to a mind distracted with terror every suggestion...
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Volume 2

Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis Whiting Halsey - Literature - 1909 - 276 pages
...morning, the light was still exceedingly faint and doubtful; the buildings all around us tottered, and tho we stood upon open ground, yet as the place was narrow...without imminent danger: we therefore resolved to quit the town.. 8 The paragraphs from this point to the end are trow Pliny's second letter to Tacitus....
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Letters, Volume 1

Pliny (the Younger.) - Authors, Latin - 1915 - 562 pages
...now six o'clock in the morning, the light still ambiguous and faint. The buildings around us already tottered, and though we stood upon open ground, yet as the place was narrow and confined, there was certain and formidable danger from their excedere oppido visum. Sequitur vulgus attonitum, quodque...
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Naples and Southern Italy

Edward Hutton - Italy - 1915 - 392 pages
...morning, the light was exceedingly faint and languid ; the buildings all around us tottered, and tho' we stood upon open ground, yet as the place was narrow and confined, there was no remaining there without certain and great danger; we therefore resolved to quit the town. The people followed...
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Letters from Many Pens

Margaret Coult - 1917 - 458 pages
...I went on with my author. Though it was now morning, the light was exceedingly faint and doubtful ; the buildings all around us tottered, and though we...without imminent danger: we therefore resolved to quit 5 the town. A panic-stricken crowd followed us, and (as to a mind distracted with terror every...
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Classical Associations of Places in Italy

Frances Ellis Sabin - History - 1921 - 552 pages
...now six o'clock in the morning, the light still ambiguous and faint. The buildings around us already tottered, and though we stood upon open ground, yet as the place was narrow and confined, there was certain and formidable danger from their collapsing. It was not till then we resolved to quit the town....
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Roman Literature in Translation

George Howe, Gustave Adolphus Harrer - English literature - 1924 - 660 pages
...and faint. The 'From The Loeb Classical Library, reprinted by permission. buildings around us already tottered, and though we stood upon open ground, yet as the place was narrow and confined, there was certain and formidable danger from their collapsing. It was not till then we resolved to quit the town....
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Europa: Or, Scenes And Society in England, France, Italy And Switzerland

Daniel Eddy - Travel - 2005 - 509 pages
...courage ; but I took up Livy, and amused myself with turning over that author. Though it was now morning, the light was exceedingly faint and languid ; the...place was narrow and confined, there was no remaining there without great and certain danger. We therefore resolved to move out of town. The people followed...
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