Hymettian
Britishadjective
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It was adorned with pillars of Hymettian marble, with expensive vases, and triclinia inlaid with brass.
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An example of splendour and luxury had been set to him by the orator Crassus, who inhabited a sumptuous palace in Rome, the hall of which was adorned with four pillars of Hymettian marble, twelve feet high, which he brought to Rome in his ædileship, at a time when there were no pillars of foreign marble even in public buildings260.
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What say you to Cicero's, in the Carinæ? or the grand portico of Quintus Catulus, rich with the Cimbric spoils? or, better yet, that of Crassus, with its Hymettian columns, on the Palatine?
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Nothing too can be finer than the two rows of Ionic columns of Hymettian marble which divide the immense nave of Santa Maria Maggiore from the side aisles.
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There are also five ancient pillars of Hymettian marble in the upper Church of San Clemente, taken from the same prolific source.
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