"Tibur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but is substantially antique; and the only considerable restoration is the right leg from the knee to the ankle. The two other most important copies were found together in 1791 on the site of Hadrian's villa at Tibur (Tivoli). One of these is now in the British Museum, the other in the Vatican; neither has its original head. A fourth copy of the body, a good deal disguised by "restoration," exists in the Museum of the Capitol in Rome. ...
— A History Of Greek Art • F. B. Tarbell
... syl.), an officer of the Prefect Almachius. He was ordered to put to death Valerian and Tibur'c[^e], because they refused to worship the image of Jupiter; but he took pity on them, took them to his house, became converted and was baptized. When Valerian and Tiburc[^e] were afterwards martyred, Maxime said he saw angels come and carry them to heaven, whereupon Almachius ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer
... beautifully-situated monastic solitudes was a riddle to those around him. He wrote of his summer residence in Tibur: ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese
... over fields of literature which lie beyond the undergraduate's bounds; by a still permeation of fine influence, my crude philosophy was unconsciously mellowed, as the surface of ivory, according to Roman belief, by the bland air of Tibur. For by the mere being in an atmosphere of serenity our nature grows porous to gracious influences streaming in we know not how or when, and taking their abode in our very grain and structure. And so without consciousness of good desert, I found myself confident in a new discipline, ...
— Apologia Diffidentis • W. Compton Leith |
