Tunis, Kairouan & CarthageW. Heinemann, 1908 - 251 pages |
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amphitheatre Appian Arab Arab town arcaded arches arena army Babouché beasts beautiful Bedouins Berber building burnous Byrsa Café des Marabouts camel Carthage Carthaginians carved cemetery century Christian Church colour columns courage courtyard crowd Cyprian desert Dido domes El-Djem embroidered enemy entrance excited eyes faith feet Felicitas flowers French gandoura ginians gold Grand Mosque Hadrumetum hand history of Tunisia holy honour hour huge interest Jews Kairouan Kasbah Koran La Goulette Lake of Tunis Larby later light look magnificent marabout marble martyrs minaret Monsieur Mosque du Barbier Mussulmen never night numerous passed perhaps Perpetua Phoenicians picturesque pleasant Porte de Tunis present Punic religion Roman Rome round ruins Scipio seat seems shops side Sidi Mahrez silk soldiers Souk-des-Étoffes Souk-el-Trouk souks Sousse Spendius SPERATUS strange street tion to-day tourist Tunisia turban walls women wonderful
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Page 43 - ... to the temple and were consumed in it. It is said that as the fire was lighted the wife of Hasdrubal, in full view of Scipio, arraying herself as best she could amid such disaster, and setting her children by her side, said, so as to be heard by Scipio, " For you, Romans, the gods have no cause of indignation, since you exercise the right of war. But upon this Hasdrubal, betrayer of his country and her temples, of me and his children, may the gods of Carthage take vengeance, and you be their...
Page 44 - The day shall come in which our sacred Troy, And Priam, and the people over whom Spear-bearing Priam rules, shall perish all.
Page 44 - ... now come to its end in total destruction — Scipio, beholding this spectacle, is said to have shed tears and publicly lamented the fortune of the enemy. After meditating by himself a long time and reflecting on the inevitable fall of cities, nations, and empires, as well as of individuals, upon the fate of Troy, that once proud city, upon the fate of the Assyrian, the Median, and afterwards of the great Persian empire, and, most recently of all, of the splendid empire of...
Page 44 - Scipio, beholding this city, which had flourished 700 years from its foundation and had ruled over so many lands, islands, and seas, as rich in arms and fleets, elephants, and money as the mightiest empires, but far surpassing them in hardihood and high spirit . . . now come to its end in total destruction — Scipio, beholding this spectacle, is said to have shed tears and publicly lamented the fortune of the enemy. After meditating...
Page 209 - Kairwán occupied some 500 Arabs during five months. During the siege of Sebastopol, Amir Abadah constructed two cannons with his own hands. He wrote to the Bey that the Prophet had appeared to him and announced that on their arrival before the beleaguered town the latter would at once surrender. They were expeditiously forwarded to Tunis, and, at the Bey's pressing request, the Sultan sent a ship to convey them to Constantinople, and thence to the Turkish camp before Sebastopol. By an extraordinary...
Page 133 - ... to the amphitheatre. Joy sparkled in their eyes, and appeared in all their gestures and words. Perpetua walked with a composed countenance and easy pace, as a woman cherished by Jesus Christ, with her eyes modestly cast down : Felicitas went with her, following the men, not able to contain her joy.
Page 135 - ... middle of the amphitheatre, that they might have the pleasure of seeing them receive the last blow. Upon this, some of the martyrs rose up, and having given one another the kiss of peace, went of their own accord into the middle of the arena ; others were despatched without speaking, or stirring out of the place they were in.
Page 133 - Felicitas went with her, following the men, not able to contain her joy. When they came to the gate of the amphitheatre, the guards would have given them, according to custom, the superstitious habits with which they adorned such as appeared at these sights. For the men, a red mantle, which was the habit of the priests of Saturn : for the women, a little fillet round the head, by which the priestesses of Ceres were known. The martyrs rejected those idolatrous...
Page 41 - ... riders, but in their headlong haste. Nor did the street cleaners either do these things on purpose ; but the press of war, the glory of approaching victory, the rush of the soldiery, the confused noise of heralds and trumpeters all round, the tribunes and centurions changing guard and marching the cohorts hither and thither — all together made everybody frantic and heedless of the spectacle before their eyes.
Page 133 - ... of Saturn : for the women, a little fillet round the head, by which the priestesses of Ceres were known. The martyrs rejected those idolatrous ceremonies ; and by the mouth of Perpetua, said, they came thither of their own accord on the promise made them that they should not be forced to anything contrary to their religion. The tribune then consented that they might appear in the amphitheatre habited as they were. Perpetua sung, as being already victorious ; Revocatus, Saturninus, and Saturus...