Maxentius and his men were bundled over the low walls, plunging into spume and gore, dragged down by their armour to perish in icy roils of rivermud: – outflanked, out-thought, outbutchered, by a golden-haired braggart Apollo in a blaze of piety.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-5.9 quake hit Saturday about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the town of Kangding in Sichuan province. China’s seismological agency put the magnitude at 6.3.[…] No major damage was reported in the town of Kangding, where CCTV video showed residents strolling the town’s streets, looking up at the steep surrounding hillsides and talking on their cellphones.[…] Kangding and the surrounding county have a population of 129,320 people, about 70 percent of them Tibetan.

The historical development of skill in foreshortening will be demonstrated in another section. Only the more perfect phases will be treated here.

He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.