Rambles in Rome; an archaeological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna (1911)
Forbes, S. Russell · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 124
ii (Cons., v. 325), all speak of these pegma, lifts orelevators, the earliest mention of which is the one made by Caligula,A.D. 40 (Pliny, xxxiii. 1(5). These underground places were foundcovered with mud, evidently the deposit of floods. We may presume, from the nature of the soil, that at some… … g^aiLtz emPi fOR. iCM/)TOf) S »e. NETTING EXISTING a ft C NA ni SECTION OF SEATS AND ARCHES OF THE COLOSSEUM. ,ZI> ICIN AL fi ft C NA OCNZ XT B/l sen INT and galleries ; and that the authorities, instead of clearing out thisdeposit, added to it to make a solid floor, and used the arena above:for…
