Pyramis

From TTT @ frath.net
Jump to: navigation, search

Latin-English

pȳrăm|is, -ĭdis. (ˈpi.ra.mis) fem.

  1. A pyramid; a solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top.
  2. A pyramid; a monument of pyramidal shape.

[Greek πυραμίς.]

Cic. 100% Class. 100% Rom. 62% Med. 0% Neo. 0%

Constructions

Adjective constructions

Noun constructions

Verb constructions

Loci

Cicero

  • αʹ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.10:
At mihi vel cylindri vel quadrati vel coni vel pyramidis videtur esse formosior. But to me, [the form of] a cylinder or a square or a cone or a pyramid seems to be more shapely.
  • βʹ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.18:
Conum tibi ais et cylindrum et pyramidem pulchriorem quam sphaeram videri. You say the cone, the cylinder, and the pyramid appear more beautiful to you than the sphere.

Classical

  • γʹ Horace, Carmina 3.30:
Ēxē|gī mŏnŭmēn|t(um) āerĕ pĕrēn|nĭūs
rēgā|līquĕ sĭtū | pȳrămĭd(um) āl|tĭūs
I have completed a monument more enduring than bronze, and higher than the regal station of the pyramids.
  • δʹ Propertius, Elegiae 3.2:
nām nĕquĕ | pȳrămĭ|dūm sūmp|tūs ād | sīdĕră | dūctī,
nēc Jŏvĭs | Ēlē|ī || cāel(um) ĭmĭ|tātă dŏ|mūs,
nēc Māu|sōlē|ī dīv|ēs fōr|tūnă sĕ|pūlcrī
mōrtĭs ăb | ēxtrēm|ā || cōndĭcĭ|ōnĕ vă|cānt.
For neither the astronomical expense of the pyramids, nor the house of Elean Zeus, modeled on the heavens, nor the rich opulence of the Mausolean tomb can free from the final condition of death.
  • ιαʹ Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.8:
quanta diametros totius operis erit futura, dimidia altitudo fiat tholi praeter florem; flos autem tantam habet magnitudinem, quantam habuerit columnae capitulum, praeter pyramidem. However much the planned diameter of the whole piece will be, it should be made half the height of the rotunda, excluding its finial; the finial itself has the same size as the capital of a column, excluding its pyramid.

Roman

  • εʹ Lucan, Pharsalia 8.696:
Cūm Ptŏlĕ|māeō|rūm mā|nēs sĕrĭ|ēmquĕ pŭ|dēndām
pȳrămĭ|dēs clāu|dānt īn|dīgnăquĕ | Māusō|lēă
lītŏră | Pōmpē|jūm fĕrĭ|ūnt, trūn|cūsquĕ vă|dōsīs
hūc īl|lūc jāc|tātŭr ăquīs.
While pyramids and undeserved mausoleums hold the spirits of the Ptolemies and their whole shameful line, the shores batter Pompey, and his body is tossed to and fro in shallow waters.
  • στʹ Lucan, Pharsalia 9.155:
Nōn mĭhĭ | pȳrămĭ|dūm tŭmŭ|līs ē|vūl|sŭs Ă|māsīs
ātqu(e) ălĭ|ī rē|gēs Nī|lō tōr|rēntĕ nă|tābūnt?
Will I not have Ahmose and all their other kings plucked from the burial mounds of their pyramids and swimming the roaring Nile?
  • ζʹ Martial, Epigrammata 10.63:
Mārmŏră | pārvă quĭ|dēm, sēd | nōn cēs|sūră, vĭ|ātōr,
Māusō|lī sāx|īs || pȳrămĭ|dūmquĕ lĕg|īs.
Yes, traveller, these marble blocks you read are small, but neither the stones of Mausolus nor those of the pyramids will ever outrank them.
  • ηʹ n. Martial, Epigrammata 8.36:
Rēgĭă | pȳrămĭ|dūm, Cāe|sār, mī|rācŭlă | rīdē;
jām tăcĕt | Ēō|ūm || bārbără | Mēmphĭs ŏ|pūs
Laugh at the kingly marvels of the pyramids, Caesar; barbarian Memphis has nothing to say about its oriental masterpiece now.
  • θʹ n. Martial, Liber Spectaculorum 1:
bārbără | pȳrămĭd|ūm sĭlĕ|āt mī|rācŭlă | Mēmphīs,
Āssy̆rĭ|ūs jāc|tēt || nēc Băby̆|lōnă lă|bōr
Let barbarian Memphis be silent about the marvels of its pyramids and do not let Assyrian labor boast of Babylon
  • ιʹ Pliny, Naturalis Historia 36.4:
supra pteron pyramis altitudinem inferiorem aequat, viginti quattuor gradibus in metae cacumen se contrahens above the pteron is a pyramid which equals the lower height, tapering up over twenty-four steps to a peak like a cone
  • ι² Pliny, Naturalis Historia 36.16:
Dicantur obiter et pyramides in eadem Aegypto, regum pecuniae otiosa ac stulta ostentatio. And the pyramids, also in Egypt, should be mentioned in passing, a useless and foolish exhibition of the wealth of their kings.
  • ι³ Pliny, Naturalis Historia 36.17:
Pyramis amplissima ex Arabicis lapicidinis constat. The largest pyramid is made from the Arabian quarries.
  • ι⁴ Pliny, Naturalis Historia 36.17:
In pyramide maxima est intus puteus LXXXVI cubitorum; flumen illo admissum arbitrantur. In the largest pyramid, there is an eighty-six cubit well inside; it is thought the river is let in by it.
  • ι⁵ n. Pliny, Naturalis Historia 36.17:
haec sunt pyramidum miracula, supremumque illud, ne quis regum opes miretur, minimam ex iis, sed laudatissimam, a Rhodopide meretricula factam. These are the marvels of the pyramids, and the greatest of alllest anyone marvel at the riches of kingsis that the smallest but most admired of them was built by Rhodopis, a courtesan.
  • ι⁶ Pliny, Naturalis Historia 36.19:
praeterea templa omnium Aegypti deorum contineat superque Nemesis xl aediculis incluserit pyramides complures quadragenarum ulnarum senas radice ἀρούρας optinentes. Additionally, it would contain temples of all the gods of Egypt, and of Nemesis as well; in its forty shrines it would have included many pyramids, each forty ells tall and covering six aruras at the base.
  • ι⁷ adj. v. Varro, ap. Pliny, Naturalis Historia 36.19:
supra id quadratum pyramides stant quinque, quattuor in angulis et in medio una, imae latae pedum quinum septuagenum, altae centenum quinquagenum ita fastigatae, ut in summo orbis aeneus et petasus unus omnibus sit inpositus Above the square stand five pyramids, four at the corners and one in the center,each seventy-five feet across at the base and a hundred and fifty feet tall, and tapered in such a way that at their peak a bronze circle and a hat-shaped cupola were placed over the whole set.
  • ι⁸⁻⁹ adj. v. Varro, ap. Pliny, Naturalis Historia 36.19:
supra quem orbem quattuor pyramides insuper singulae stant altae pedum centenum, supra quas uno solo quinque pyramides. Over and above this circle four individual pyramids stand, each a hundred feet tall, above which are five pyramids on one floor.
  • ι¹⁰ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.24:
Pyramidas regum miramur, cum solum tantum foro exstruendo IIS |M| Caesar dictator emerit. We marvel at the pyramids of the kings, when the land alone for building the Forum was bought by the dictator Caesar for IIS100,000,000 (~$1,700,000,000).
  • ιαʹ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.11:
Deinde Arsinoës ac iam dicta Memphis, inter quam et Arsinoiten nomon in Libyco turres quae pyramides vocantur, et labyrinthus, in Moeridis lacu nullo addito ligno exaedificatus, et oppidum Crialon. Next, [the town of] Arsinoë, and Memphis, already mentioned; between it and the Arsenoite nome, towards the Libyan, the towers called the Pyramids, and the Labyrinth on Lake Moeris, which was constructed without any wood; and the town of Crialon.
  • ιβʹ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.64:
Agrigenti conplurium equorum tumuli pyramidas habent. At Agrigento, the burial mounds of a great many horses have pyramidal monuments.