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erupted. Before this historic eruption, toxic fumes covered Pompeii. The citizens of Pompeii had no idea what was happening. Ashfalls forced buildings to...

Athens becomes Athenis = in/at Athens and Cumae becomes Cumis. Pompeii becomes Pompeiis. Nouns of declensions 3-5 also use the same ending as the ablative...

Volcanic activity includes an explosive Plinian eruption that destroyed Pompeii and killed thousands of people in 79 AD. 11 Which geological phenomena...

Volcanic activity includes an explosive Plinian eruption that destroyed Pompeii and killed thousands of people in 79 AD. 11 Which geological phenomena...

1930) to the explosive Plinian eruptions, including the one that destroyed Pompeii and killed thousands of people in 79 AD." File:Mount Somma schema.gif In...

c) churches d) football stadiums 3)When was Pompeii covered? 4)What can you learn from the city of Pompeii? a) How to milk a cow b) What life was like...

is shown by the annexed engraving (Immissarium/1.1), from a specimen at Pompeii. The high vaulted building is the reservoir, from which the water flowed...

afterthoughts. The illustration (Ansa/1.1) is taken from a bronze jug found at Pompeii, with a single handle, of a very beautiful, though simple character; but...

vi. 23.) The illustration (Acus/1.1) represents a box of pins found at Pompeii, and a sewing needle an inch and a half long, from the same city. 2. Acus...

earthenware cruet-stand with two glass bottles in it, from an original found in Pompeii, very similar to those still in use; but another kind very generally adopted...

window, as shown by the annexed example (Valvae/1.1), from a painting of Pompeii, in which the door is formed of four pieces, two for each leaf. (Varro...

Wisconsin-Madison UC Berkeley press release: "Precise dating of the destruction of Pompeii proves argon-argon method can reliably date rocks as young as 2,000 years"...

elsewhere; but some few houses, of a respectable class, have been discovered at Pompeii, in which the shop has an entrance from its back, into the habitable parts...

illustration (Culina/1.1) represents a kitchen stove in the house of Pansa at Pompeii, with some cooking utensils upon it, as discovered when first excavated;...

specimen (Authepsa/1.1) here introduced, from a bronze original found at Pompeii. The sides, which are of considerable thickness, and hollow, contained...

illustration (Pessulus/1.1) affords a specimen, from a bronze original found at Pompeii. The doors of the ancients being generally bivalve had two, and sometimes...

in the annexed figures (Statera/1.1), both from originals discovered at Pompeii. 2. Sometimes used without discrimination for libra, a balance. Pet. Sat...

kind as it now stands at one end of the thermal chamber in the baths of Pompeii. 2. An ornamental basin of the same form, intended to receive the water...

example (Superficies/1.1), from a painting representing a tragic scene at Pompeii, in which both the penthouse form of the superficies, and the protuberance...

represents the top courses of the external wall of the great theatre at Pompeii, which is furnished with large stone rings to receive the masts in the...