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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 156

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abla-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… … a a s o K 130 ARCHITECTURE chap, ii of the Sullan colony. The inscription which gives the names ofthe builders, C. Quinctius Valgus and M. Porcius, gives it the namespectacula, and the word a/jLcfuOiarpov, which was at first applied tothe circus as well as the amphitheatre properl is of later…

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