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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 146

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tabla-ture to the column is constant. 2 No trace has been discovered of the Odeum at Eome, built by Domitianfor the performances of the Agon Capitolinus ; but it was probably a coveredtheatre. 3 Statius {Silv. iii. 5, 91) mentions an open and covered theatre as formingpart of a single block of… … 130 ARCHITEOTUEE chap, ii of the Sullan colony. The inscription which gives the names ofthe builders, C. Quinctius Valgus and M. Porcius, gives it the namespedacula, and the word afxcfyiOearpov, which was at first applied tothe circus as well as the amphitheatre proper ^ is of later coinage.The…

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