单词 | antonine wall |
释义 | > as lemmasAntonine Wall Antonine Wall n. (also Antonine's Wall) [compare post-classical Latin murus Antonini Antonine's wall (1607 in a British source)] a Roman frontier wall between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, built for Antoninus Pius in a.d. 142. ΚΠ 1732 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 3 No. 17. xxvi. 512 On the ancient Pavement of their military Ways, particularly of that near Antonine's Wall, which is very magnificent and beautiful. a1765 J. Macpherson Crit. Diss. Anc. Caledonians (1768) xii. 154 An antique stone dug out of the remains of Antonine's wall. 1840 J. Hodgson & J. Raine Hist. Northumberland: Pt. II III. v. 262/1 In this respect the north margin of the ditch of the Antonine Wall very much resembles that of the ditch of the English Murus. 1988 G. Walker T. Johnston i. 2 The town itself grew up around the site of a fort on Antonine's wall. 2005 N. Fields Rome's Northern Frontier AD 70–235 37 The Antonine Wall had a series of regularly spaced forts right from the very beginning. < as lemmas |
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