cippi
- plural of cippus.
Example Sentences
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One of the cippi, above the staircase, is beautifully decorated with shells and mosaic.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
At regular intervals pale streaks of light lay across the pavement, falling through the windows, which, from among the tombstones, the cippi, and the pagan sarcophagi, look down upon Rome.
From The Saint by Thayer, William Roscoe
The other cippi found in the ustrinum mention four other children of Germanicus, among them Caius Cæsar, the lovely child who was so much beloved by Augustus,185 and so deeply regretted by him.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
The area is lined with stone cippi, placed at an interval of two and a half metres from one another.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
Not the sight of illumined Rome, but the sight of a low and narrow bench, running along below the cippi and the sarcophagi, calmed his spirit.
From The Saint by Thayer, William Roscoe
