rostra

The chiripá, a scarf which resembled a diaper, was strung through his legs, and the buckle of his wide belt, called a rostra, was made from silver coins fastened to chains.

The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

The chiripá, a scarf which resembled a diaper, was strung through his legs, and the buckle of his wide belt, called a rostra, was made from silver coins fastened to chains.

The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

The chiripá, a scarf which resembled a diaper, was strung through his legs, and the buckle of his wide belt, called a rostra, was made from silver coins fastened to chains.

The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985

Above the rostra was the Senate-house, said to have been first erected by Tullus Hostilius; and near the Comitium, or place of meeting for the patrician Curiæ. [

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The curved steps of the rostra, rising like the seats of an amphitheater, had been cordoned off to form the court, and a large crowd was already clustered around it, eager to see what possible defense the famous orator could come up with for a client who was so manifestly guilty.

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Labienus also got hold of a bust of Saturninus and set it up on the rostra, garlanded with laurel.

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At the earliest embryonic stages the nasal openings are still situated at the rostra tip like those of land mammals; they are gradually shifted more and more towards the vertex of the head at the older stages.

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He also gave orders that a newly completed statue of Jupiter, originally destined for the Capitol, should be put up at once in the Forum in front of the rostra.

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I hurried down the aisle and reached the door in time to glimpse Nepos and his retinue of attendants heading across the Forum in the direction of the rostra.

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He inserted many purple passages about himself, especially in the public address he had made from the rostra on the day the plotters were arrested.

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