"Podium" Quotes from Famous Books
... whole thing is superbly vast, and as monumental, for a place of light amusement—what is called in America a "variety-show"—as it entered only into the Roman mind to make such establishments. The podium is much higher than at Nmes, and many of the great white slabs that faced it have been recovered and put into their places. The proconsular box has been more or less reconstructed, and the great converging passages ... — Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 • Various |