 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1811 - 460 lehte
...subjection. The religious groves, dedicated to superstition and barbarous rites, were levelled to the ground. In those recesses, the natives imbrued their altars...the entrails of men explored the will of the gods. While Suetonius was employed in making his arrangements to secure the island, he received intelligence... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1822 - 482 lehte
...religious groves, dedicated to superstition and barbarous rites, were levelled to the ground. In tbose recesses, the natives imbrued their altars with the...the entrails of men explored the will of the gods. While Suetonius was employed in making his arrangements to secure the island, he received intelligence... | |
 | 1823 - 730 lehte
...subjection. The religious groves, dedicated to superstition and barbarous rites, were levelled to the ground. In those recesses the natives imbrued their altars with the blood of their prisoners." I have visited Brimham Rocks (according to Mr. Hargrove the Historian of Knaresborough, the derivation... | |
 | Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1831 - 410 lehte
...subjection. The religious groves, dedicated to superstition and barbarous rites, were levelled to the ground. In those recesses the natives imbrued their altars with the blood of their prisoners, and in 1 Mona, now Anglesey. 2 For an account of the Druids, aee Cesar's Commentaries. TACIT. VOL. III. C... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1836 - 780 lehte
...subjection. The religious groves, dedicated to superstition and barbarous rites, were levelled to the ground. In those recesses, the natives imbrued their altars with the blood of their prisoners, arid in the entrails of men explored the will of the gods. While Suetonius was employed in making his... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1842 - 758 lehte
...subjection. The religious groves, dedicated to superstition and barbarous rites, were levelled to the ground. In those recesses, the natives imbrued their altars...the entrails of men explored the will of the gods. While Suetonius was employed in making his arrangements to secure the island, he received intelligence... | |
 | Walter Simson - 1865 - 606 lehte
...77is religion* proves, dedicated to nij>erntUion and barbarous rites, were levelled to the ground, hi those recesses, the natives imbrued their altars with the blood of their firifOnm, and, in the entrails of men, explored the will of the ffodt." — .',/,. .--,-/. v'i Translation.... | |
 | Walter Simson, James Simson - 1866 - 606 lehte
...subjection. The rtligioua groves, dedicated to superstition and barbarous ritei, were levelled to the grovnd. In those recesses, the natives imbrued their altars with the blood of their prameri, and, in the entrails of nun, explored the will of the gods."—tturphft Translation. stances.... | |
 | Archibald Brown - 1889 - 470 lehte
...religious groves, dedicated to superstition and barbarous rites, were levelled to the ground. In these recesses the natives imbrued their altars with the...the entrails of men explored the will of the gods." (Bk. XIV.) On this burst of rhetoric rests the sole proof of the existence of the Druids in South Britain.... | |
 | Jason Nelson Fradenburgh - 1891 - 478 lehte
...were leveled to the ground. In their recesses the natives imbrued their altars with the blood of the prisoners, and in the entrails of men explored the will of the gods."f Ammianus Marcellinus says : " Throughout these provinces, the people gradually becoming civilized,... | |
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... and rushed on to the attack with impetuous fury. The Britons perished in the flames which they themselves had kindled. The island fell, and a garrison was established to retain it in subjection. The religious groves, dedicated to superstition and... 
