Rambles in Rome; an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna (1887)
Forbes, S. Russell · London, New York, T.Nelson · leaf 142
greater easesingle out the bea.sts he aimed at. Theemi)eror having employed himself in shooting from above descended afterwards to the lx)ttom of the theatre, and there slew some other private beasta, whereof some made toward him,others were brought to him, and others were shut up in… … PLAN OF THE CX0AVATI0N8 BELOW THE ARENA OF THE OOL088EUM. 100 KVMIM.K I. the theatre. Also, in his life of Septimius Severus, he siiys: ^ Theivwas a kind of cloister made in the ampluthoatre, in the form i.f aship, to receivo thom [the wild beasts]. On a su.ldcn^ there issnedout beai-s, lions,…
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