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
he might with greater easesingle out the beasts he aimed at. The emperor having employed himself in shooting from above descended afterwaids to the bottom of the theatre, and there slew some other private beasts, whereof some made toward him,others were brought to him, and others were shut up in… … PLAN OF THE EXCAVATIONS BELOW THE ARENA OF THE COLOSSEUM. 100 KAMULK I. tlie theatre. Also, in las life of Septimius Severus, he says: Therewas a kind of cloister made in the amphitheatre, in the form of aship, to receive them [the wild beasts]. Ou a sudden there issuedout bears, lions, ostriches,…
