 The advantage of receiving the earliest intelligence, and of conveying their orders with celerity induced the emperors to establish, throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts. Houses were everywhere erected at the distance...  Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Page 91edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 412 pages
...establish throughout their extensive dominions the regular institution of posts. Houses were every where erected, at the distance only of five or six miles...by the help of these relays it was easy to travel a hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads.' Mr. Gibbon adds in a note the following anecdote :... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1830 - 542 pages
...establish, throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts. Houses wer* every where erected at the distance only of five or six miles...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel a hundred miles in a day along the Roman mad»." Mr Gibbon adds in a note the following anecdote :... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 750 pages
...everywhere erected at distances of five or six miles, each of which was constantly provided with 40 horses, and by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel 100 miles a-day along the Roman roads. A magistrate of high rank once posted, in the 5th century, from... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Classical antiquities - 1837 - 372 pages
...extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts. Houses were every where erected only at the distance of five or six miles ; each of them was constantly...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel a hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads. The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 820 pages
...dominions, the regular institution of posts. Houses were every whero erected at the distance of only five or six miles ; each of them was constantly provided...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel 100 miles in a day along the Roman roads." By these means the Romans maintained their ascendancy in... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1843 - 734 pages
...emperors to establish throughout their extensive dominions the regular institution of posts. Houses were everywhere erected at the distance only of five or...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel a hundred miles a day along the Roman roads." In the time of Thcodosius, Cesarius, a magistrate of... | |
 | 1843 - 746 pages
...dominions, the regular institutions of posts. Houses were everywhere erected at the distance of only five or six miles; each of them was constantly provided...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel at the rate of one hundred miles per diem. The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed it... | |
 | D. Davidson - Christianity - 1844 - 284 pages
...emperors to establish, throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts. Houses were everywhere erected at the distance only of five or...these relays, it was easy to travel an hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads. The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed it by an imperial... | |
 | Henry Davis - 1844 - 224 pages
...emperors to establish, throughout their extensive dominions, the regular institution of posts. Houses were everywhere erected at the distance only of five or...by the help of these relays, it was easy to travel a hundred miles in a day along the Roman roads. The use of the posts was allowed to those who claimed... | |
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