Excavations begun by the French, A.D. 1810, 31; not deep enough, 33; shew channels for water, 32; —made in search of treasure, A.D. 1864, 1865, 33; —A.D. 1874, 1875, 1; results of them a great surprise, 37. Exhibitions by Julius Cæsar in circus required a separate building, 5. Framework, curious wooden, on floor of central passage, a cradle, or dry-dock, 18. Frangipani make amphitheatre part of fortress, A.D. 1130, 28. Front of three periods, upper storey added a century later, 19. Gallery, upper, of wood, destroyed by fire, 12; restored in stone, completed A.D. 240, under Gordianus, _ib._ Games on arena, 55; great importance attached to them, _ib._ Gates, usually four to each amphitheatre, 53; names of, not easily ascertained, _ib._; one called _sandapila_, _ib._; others called Porta Prætoria, Porta Sacra, Porta Cochlea, 54. Gaudentius employed upon it, not the architect of it, 20. Gladiators often killed, 52; —called for by the people, _ib._ Gordianus completed the building, and restored arch of lower storey, A.D. 220-238, 31. Grooves in walls for lifts, 7. Gulf, or central passage, in all amphitheatres, 47. Gymnasium on the arena, 1; of Nero also here, 6. Hadrian and Apollodorus, 34. Herodian mentions 100 lions leaping on to the arena in amphitheatre, 50. Icarus, an actor playing part of, fell dead at feet of Nero, 48. Inscriptions record dates of later walls, 7; —give the word THEATRUM for Amphitheatre, _ib._ Jerusalem, view of, century xvi., 29. Joints, straight vertical, between the brick galleries and stone corridors, 6. Josephus mentions _pegmata_ in amphitheatre, 49. Julius Cæsar, Amphitheatre of, 2. Julius Capitolinus mentions 100 lions in amphitheatre, 50. Lampadius restores amphitheatre, A.D. 445, 27. Lampridius mentions 100 lions in amphitheatre, 50. Lifts for men and dogs on both sides of central passage, 14; grooves for, remain in walls, 7. Lions, 100 killed at once in the shows, 26. Machine for raising stones for walls, 21. Machines required, numerous and large, 48. Martial’s first book, _De Spectaculis_, relates to this amphitheatre, 4; —mentions _pegmata_ in amphitheatre, 49. Martyrdom of early Christians on sand of arena, not on soil 21 ft. below, 36. Mass celebrated in amphitheatre by Cardinal Vicar, A.D. 1756, 30. Masts, or poles, and corbels for awning, 24. Miracle plays performed in amphitheatre, A.D. 1540, 29. Mixture of stone and brick in construction, 19. Naumachia, the new, those of Augustus in Trastevere, 9; —the old, in this building, 1, 8, 10; —none in amphitheatre of Taurus, 10; —and Stagna, names used indifferently, 12; —the two sides were flooded, not the central passage, 14; —vessels employed in usually _rates_, 47.