And Saturninus, watching from the rostra, wondered. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
“Pin this up on the wall of the rostra,” said Sulla. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
The heads of the most eminent citizens they fastened to the rostra. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
Saturninus brushed past Marius and stood on the very edge of the rostra. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
“He shouted the secret name of Rome out loud from the rostra,” said Sulla. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
He could thus wield a great influence by his speeches to the people from the rostra. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
The second list went up on the rostra the very next day, to the number of two hundred knights. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
And he bounded onto the rostra so suddenly that Pompey and Crassus automatically stepped apart. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Roman people, at Fidenae, whose statues were standing in the rostra till within my recollection. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
Clodius was pushed off the rostra: and then we too made our escape for fear of mischief in the riot. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
Well, for the moment I will leave your name among the senators and will not attach it to the rostra. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Your colleague was sitting in the rostra, clothed in purple robe, on a golden chair, wearing a crown. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
“Put the head on the rostra,” said Sulla, straightened himself, and walked back into the chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Statues of the ambassadors, who were slain at Fidenæ, were set up in the rostra at the public expense. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
He chose to assemble Senate and People together in the lower Forum Romanum, and speak to both from the rostra. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
He had ascended the rostra, and stood observing Saturninus among the crowd, the broadest of smiles upon his fair face. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
The ordinary-looking men moved quietly through the thin crowd, came to the rostra, mounted it, and laid hold of Ofella. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
For Gaius Marius there had been no public funeral, and for his son only the sight of a head rotting away on the rostra. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
From its rostra, or stone platform, addresses were delivered by political agitators to open-air assemblies of the people. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
Hereupon imagine Cato hurrying to the rostra, delivering an admirable invective against the consul, if we can call that an. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
He was going to do this in public rather than within the Curia Hostilia of the Senate-from the rostra, an hour after dawn. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
All his enemies had died-and some of his friends-and the rostra had bristled with the heads as thickly as pins in a cushion. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
As he spoke, he walked from side to side of the rostra, and pulled his toga from his shoulder as he became warm in his delivery. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Their findings were read out at a special contio they called from the rostra in the lower Forum Romanum, and created a huge stir. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
The head and hands of Cicero were cut off and sent to be affixed to the rostra, where they had so often been seen during his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Yes, he was that Tuditanus who used to put on a cloak and buskins, and then go and scatter money from the rostra among the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
He tottered off the rostra and had to be helped home, where he took to his bed for the next three days, growing sicker and sicker. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
L. Octavius Reatinus died in his youth, while he was in full practice: but he ascended the rostra with more assurance, than ability. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
The minute Lucius Equitius had the rostra to himself again, Saturninus marched up to him and asked him if he knew who the old horror was. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
This was the reason why you decreed to him a statue in the rostra with an honourable inscription, and why you voted him a triumph in his absence. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
He went to the rostra, climbed upon it, and there, surrounded by the dripping trophies of Brutus Damasippus, he screamed aloud the secret name of Rome. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
When at last they gave the story credence, they took down the images of Pompey and of Sulla that stood upon the rostra, but did nothing further at that time. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference
And the imposing statue of Gaius Marius near the rostra had a bank of snow perched on either bushy eyebrow, masking the normally fierce glare of his dark eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
As tribunes they conveyed the body into the Forum just before dawn, placed it on the rostra, exhibited it to all, and spoke appropriate words with lamentations. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference
He should have been standing on the rostra in the Forum telling everyone in magnificent language all about his plans, or throwing rhetorical sand in the Senate's eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
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