How To Use hippodrome In A Sentence
- About two miles away and once connected by an ancient colonnaded paved road is the largest existing Roman hippodrome found in the world.
- Through a temple the walkway led to a vast hippodrome. A Privilege to Die
- It reminded one of the tank of the New York Hippodrome, when the long lines of stage soldiers march down into the water, knee-high, hip-high, shoulder-high, then heads under and are gone. Mexico's Army and Ours
- Judging by the well-preserved remains it has been inferred that within the acropolis there had been the temple of god Apollo and Dionysous as well as the hippodrome.
- Read it properly to revel (or reveal for the slow of speech) in its secrets and secrete properly your resigns on the public amphitheater floor, run in the hippodrome your best horses and sail your vessels (vassals?) under the loving eye of the goddess. A Mess
- Their heroes fight, after preliminary parley which would do credit to the chivalry of the Hippodrome; and their lances invariably splinter as frush as the texture of the bullrush. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
- The most popular entertainments were the theater, frequently denounced by the clergy for nudity and immorality, and the races at the hippodrome.
- Standing, as it were, historically between Mycenae and Athens, and artistically between temple and hippodrome, the Theban Pindar in life was awarded the right to an equal share of first-fruit offer - ings by the Pythian priestess of Delphi, and after death, heroization, his ghost being invited annually to dine with Apollo (Gilbert Norwood, Pindar [1945]). Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- In the Hippodrome, for example, statuary was marshaled to depict Constantinople as the New Rome.
- Horses were sometimes introduced, but then the hippodrome was the course. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
