[205] “Memorabile maxime Cari et Carini et Numeriani hoc habuit imperium, quod ludos populo Romano novis ornatos spectaculis dederunt, quos in Palatio circa porticum statuti pictos vidimus ... centum pantomimos et gymnicos mille pegma præterea, cujus flammis scena conflagravit quam Diocletianus postea magnificentiorem reddidit.” (Vopiscus in Carino, cap. 18, ap. Script. Hist. Aug.) [206] “Hic ubi sidereus propius videt astra Colossus, Et crescunt media Pegmata celsa via, Invidiosa feri radiabant atria regis.” (Martialis, De Spectaculis, Ep. 2.) [207] “Catabolum erat locus, in quo feræ erudiebantur sive ad mansuetudinem sive etiam ad crudelitatem, quam in bestiarios exercerent.” (Papias.) “Catabolum est clausura animalium, ubi desuper aliquid jacitur.” (Vossii, Lexicon Etymologicum.) The Catabolensis or Catabolici were the men who fed the wild beasts, and threw down their food from the small passage before mentioned. (See p. 17.) [208] “Addidit alia die in Amphitheatro una missione centum jubatos leones, qui rugitibus suis tonitru excitabant; qui omnes e POSTICIS interempti sunt, non magnum præbentes spectaculum quo occidebantur. Neque enim erat bestiarum impetus ille, qui esse e caveis egredientibus olet.” (Vopisci Probus, c. 19, ap. Script. Hist. Aug.) [209] “Ut sæpe faciunt amphitheatrales feræ diffractis tandem solutæ POSTICIS.” (Ammianus Marcellinus, lib. 27.) [210] “Stat. CARDINE aperto—Infelix cavea.” The door opening on a hinge or a pivot. [211] “Feras lybicas una die centum exhibuit, ursos una die mille.” (Julii Capitolini, i. c. 3, ap. Script. Hist. Aug.) [212] “... Auro quoque torta refulgent Retia, quæ totis in Arenam dentibus extant. ... nec non, ubi finis Arenæ, Proxima marmoreo peragit spectaculo muro: Sternitur adjunctis ebur admirabile truncis, Et coit in rotulam, tereti qua lubricus axis Impositos subita vertigine falleret ungues Excuteretque feras.” (Calpurnii, Ecl. 7.) [213] “Fertur in euripis vino plenis Navales Circenses exhibuisse.” (Lampridii Antoninus Heliogabalus, c. 23, ap. Script. Hist. Aug.) [214] “Quidquid et in Circo spectatur et amphitheatro, Dives Cæsarea præstitit unda tibi: Fucinus et pigri taceantur stagna Neronis: Hanc norint unam sæcula Naumachiam.” (Martialis de Spect. Ep. 28.) That is, the _stagna_ in the amphitheatre were supplied by an aqueduct from the lake of Fucino. This lake has been drained in 1874-75 by Prince Torlonia, by carrying out the project of the great engineers of the time of the Emperor Claudius, and making an _emisarium_, on even a grander scale than the one partially made in the time of Claudius, on a similar plan to those of the lakes of Albano and Nemi. [215]