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Title: Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Forbes, S. Russell
Subjects: Art -- Rome Rome -- Guidebooks Rome -- Antiquities
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building was dedicated, when the naval fights being abandonedthere was no longer any occasion for a movable stage or arena asbefore. They contained the machinery for the stage above, and forthe lifts or pegmata to send men or beasts from the area to the arena.Probably these are the walls thus alluded to by Dion Cassius: He(Commodus) divided the theatre into four parts by two pai-titionsthat cut through diametrically, and by right angles, to the end thatfrom the galleries that were round about 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 dens.Eetuming after dinner, he used the exercises of a gladiator, with ashield in his right hand, and in his left a wooden sword. After himfouofht those whom he had chosen in the morning at the bottom of
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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, wild asses, and foreign bulls. The walls before us are of very bad construction, evidently repairsof a late date: they are the work of either Lampridius, prefect ofRome vmder Valentinian III., 425-455, who repaired the steps andrenewed the arena; or of Basilius, who restored the podium andarena after their destraction by an earthquake in 486—this we learnfrom two inscriptions standing at the entrance. Half way, on eachside, two large passages have been discovered choked up with mud :they weie the aqueducts to bring the watei for the vaumaehice fromthe reservoirs ujjon the Esquiline and C.ielian Hills respectively; fromthe small openings in the blind arches the water also poured out overthe

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