What is "rostrum"

Usage examples of "rostrum".

Here, too, all was built of stone and beautified with flowersbeds of golden lilies and scarlet askinnias dividing the various rostra and barracoons one from another.

The florid and exhibitionistic style of Hortensius suited the rostra far better, but Cicero could not be comfortable in widening his performance to a Hortensian scale.

Hortensius suited the rostra far better, but Cicero could not be comfortable in widening his performance to a Hortensian scale.

The bier was put upon the rostra, and the mourning relativesall save Lucius Nonius and Aelia attached in some way to the Julian houseascended it to stand and hear the eulogy.

The pulpit became the rostrum where the shepherdless masses were entertained with vague essays on such general terms as righteousness, human dignity, light, progress, truth, and right.

Congress stood and clapped as she walked down the aisleway to the rostrum, though the Republicans, most of them, did so out of mere politeness, devoid of enthusiasm.

Forum alongside the rostra, while Gaius Marius was carried up the Clivus Argentarius to his house.

I must answer in the negative, and I hope that you too, you who are not inmates of mental hospitals, will regard me as nothing more than an eccentric who, for private and what is more esthetic reasons, though to be sure the advice of Bebra my mentor had something to do with it, rejected the cut and color of the uniforms, the rhythm and tone of the music normally played on rostrums, and therefore drummed up a bit of protest on an instrument that was a mere toy.

With Pila at his side, he stood awkwardly on a crate, the only rostrum he could find.

Saturninus, he noted, had descended from the rostra and was walking fearlessly into the maw of the crowd, smiling and holding out his arms like one of those peculiar Pisidian mystics who believed in the laying-on of hands.

Rome, such as the drains of the middle and southern basin of the left bank, the channels and arches of the Marcia and Anio Vetus, the Servian walls, the temples of Fortuna Virilis, of Hercules Magnus Custos, the Rostra, the embankment of the Tiber, etc.

United States Senate, Viv and Devin sat on the small carpeted steps on the side of the rostrum, literally waiting for the phone to blink.

Apart from four or five earnestly suited auctioneers in their spacious rostrum, the place was deserted.

How dared he have the audacity to say the proscriptions would end on the Kalends of last month-the names are still going up on the rostra every time one of his minions or his relatives covets another luscious slice of Campania or the seashore!

Thirty-five narrow gangways rose steeply from the floor of the well to where the baskets stood some six feet higher, the ropes dividing tribe from tribe extending like pie wedges across the floor and up the tiers of the well on the opposite side from the rostra.