A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 213
330 ROMAN IMP. ARCHIT. solid coustruction of her walls to render thecities she founded secure against attack, and bythe emiiloynient of arched construction to roofover her buildings with an imperishable mate-rial, to build bridges and aijucducts (tiie latter of ROMAN IMP. ARCHIT. basilica; the… … Ro.MAN Imperhi. Architecture; Therih.e of Caracalla; Viollet-le-Ducs restoration of the great hall (teiiidariutn). C. 21.5 A.D. vital importance in all her Eastern po.ssessious),and lastly to drain otl water from niarsliydistri<-ts. The second soiuce was that of (xreek archi-tecture, from which…
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