Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
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of hewn stonefor the use of all whose station and power entitled them to a sharein public plunder, it was at last secured from further injury byPope Benedict XIV., who consecrated the building about themiddle of the last century, and placed it under the protection ofthe martyrs, who had there borne… … 138 AMUSEMENTS. There is nothing in the amphitheatre of Pompeii at variancewith the general description of this class of buildings, and ournotice of it will therefore necessarily be short. (See page 121.)Its form, as usual, is oval: the extreme length, from outside tooutside of the exterior arcade,…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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