Word: septimius
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...VANGUARD-Arnold Bennett- Doran ($2.50). The Story. Septimius Sutherland, middleaged, married, meticulous, is preparing to leave Naples for his native London. Packed, he rings for a waiter that he may sup in his hotel room. The bell is unanswered. Septimius descends to the lobby. There he finds the other guests of the hotel in a state of considerable confusion. The entire kitchen staff has gone on strike. Count Veruda (of unknown antecedents) has asked everyone to join him at dinner on his yacht which is lying in the harbor. Some of the ladies have demurred through lack of confidence...
...Premier set out upon a three-day visit to the vast, imposing and astonishingly well preserved ruins of Sabrata, "the Marble City," and Leptis Magna, both sumptuously adorned by that potent Roman whose name sprawls in great capitals across many a still standing architrave: IMPERATOR -CAESAR -AUGUSTUS -LUCIUS -SEPTIMIUS -SEVERUS...
...have been going on for two or three years under the direction of the Italian government. Leptis Magna is an ancient city of Africa situated a few miles inland on the coast of Tripoli. The city as it was in its glory, was largely the creation of the Emperor Septimius Magnus, who was born there and flourished about the year 200 A. D. It was the desire of the Emperor to create this African city a second Rome, and therefore laid it out and built it up with all the magnificence characteristic of the late Empire. In the sixth century...
...Tripoli, work has been going forward in uncovering the city of Leptis Magna, birthplace of the Emperor Septimius Severus. The city, 100 miles east of Tripoli, and about five miles from the sea at the present time, was formerly a seaport as the discovery of elaborate wharves proves. It was almost two miles square and the ruins are now buried in from 10 to 50 ft. of sand. A great palace, several statues and baths have been uncovered, and a series of columns nine metres high...