Triclinium
in sentence
25 examples of Triclinium in a sentence
"In that case let us go to the triclinium, where a meal is now ready, and when we have refreshed ourselves, let us give command to bear us to Plautius."
And then, placing an arm on the shoulders of his nephew, he conducted him to the
triclinium.
Lygia herself entered the
triclinium
after the little boy.
But from the moment when he saw her more nearly in the
triclinium
he thought to himself that Aurora might look like her; and as a judge he understood that in her there was something uncommon.
Near the
triclinium
were heard in the alley, the steps of the old general, Vinicius, Lygia, and little Aulus; but before they arrived, Petronius had put another question--"But believest thou in the gods, then, Pomponia?"
Let him see thee in the
triclinium
next to Lygia.""Do not do that.
They went to the great triclinium, beautiful, calm, like white gods, in their togas.
mea culpa!"Acte, taking her hand at that moment, led her through the interior apartments to the grand triclinium, where the feast was to be.
Nero, resting the delta on the table, raised his eyes; and for a moment silence reigned in the triclinium, broken only by a rustle, as roses fell from the ceiling.
Ursus stood calmly, but looked at Vinicius so strangely with his blue eyes that the blood stiffened in the veins of the young man; then the giant took his queen on his arm, and walked out of the
triclinium
with an even, quiet step.
The greater number of the guests were lying under the table; others were walking with tottering tread through the triclinium, while others were sleeping on couches at the table, snoring, or giving forth the excess of wine.
In this way they went from the
triclinium
to the adjoining chamber, and thence to the gallery leading to Acte's apartments.
There was something, then, besides that disgusting
triclinium.
He will come; he will bear her out of the litter as he bore her out of the triclinium, and they will go into the world.
In the
triclinium
a table was laid for four persons.
Would that gigantic blue-eyed Lygian, who had the courage to enter the
triclinium
and carry her from the feast on his arm?
After a while he shrugged his shoulders at these fears, and decided to go to the
triclinium
to strengthen himself, and then order the litter to bear him once more to the palace, after that to the Campus Martius, and then to Chrysothemis.
But on the way to the
triclinium
at the entrance to the corridor assigned to servants, he saw unexpectedly the slender form of Eunice standing, among other slaves, at the wall; and forgetting that he had given Tiresias no order beyond flogging her, he wrinkled his brow again, and looked around for the atriensis.
He looked then for a while on Eunice lying at his feet, and went in silence to the
triclinium.
More than once I saw love in her look, in her face; and, wilt thou believe me? among those simple people then in that poor chamber, which was at once a culina and a triclinium, I felt happier than ever before.
I found the slaves drunk, and a feast, which they were giving themselves, in my
triclinium.
I love the odor of violets too much, and a comfortable
triclinium.
And, self-satisfied, he passed to the triclinium, where he sat down to supper with Eunice.
Brilliant and stately as one of the gods, he went to the triclinium, to cast the eye of a critic on the preparations, and then to the gardens, where youths and Grecian maidens from the islands were weaving wreaths of roses for the evening.
At the door of the triclinium, youths with hair in golden nets put wreaths of roses on the heads of the guests, warning them, as the custom was, to pass the threshold right foot foremost.
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