SCAURUS, Family of Æmilius, 56; —name means club-footed, _ib._; —one of the family built Basilica Æmilia, _ib._; —_insane_ works of, so called from their enormous cost, _ib._; —his theatre to hold 80,000 people could only be on site of Colosseum, _ib._; —no other theatre three storeys high, _ib._; —extract from Pliny, _ib._; —walls of, 15; —buildings of, parts temporary, other parts eternal, according to Pliny, on site of present amphitheatre, 3; —Clivus of, leads to this site, _ib._ Sea-water (?) used in canals, 8. Seneca, _pegmata_ described by, 16. Severus, Alexander, piscina of, 5; wall of, 6. Sockets in the pavement for pivots of capstans, 7, 35. Stagna, or old _naumachia_, under the arena, 1, 12; —of Nero supplied by three aqueducts, 9; —boarded over for gladiators and wild beasts, but boards removed easily, 10; —two, each 300 ft. long, and about 50 wide, 14. Stagnum of Nero, “like a sea,” when surface was flooded, 9, 12. — Navale of Tacitus, 9. — of Agrippa near the Pantheon, 9. Statilius Taurus, Amphitheatre of, 1. Storey, upper, an addition and an afterthought, 6. Substructures, part of the time of Nero, 1; —evidently retained and used when upper part was built, 39; —compared with others, 47. Suetonius does not mention the beginning of the work, 1. Tacitus gives an account of games here under his own direction, 55. Taurus, Statilius, Amphitheatre of, 1. Theatrum and Amphitheatrum, names used indifferently for this building, 7. Theodoric uses amphitheatre for shows of wild beasts, A.D. 519, 27. Titus, wall of, 6; —exhibitions of, at the dedication, 8. Trap-doors in the arena numerous, 7. Travertine piers cut through older wall, of tufa and brick, to carry upper gallery, 19. Tufa, much used to fill up between piers of travertine, 18; —taken from second wall of Rome, _ib._ Tusculum, canals in amphitheatre, as in Rome, 14. Upper storey, of stone, an addition to the plan, 6, 12; damaged by lightning, A.D. 230, 26; of wood, burnt, A.D. 217, 25; restored by Heliogabalus, Al. Severus, and Gordianus, _ib._ Vaults under arena called _caveæ_, 51. Venantius Basilius restores amphitheatre, A.D. 508, 27. VERONA, Amphitheatre at, 43, 44; —Outer wall almost destroyed, 43; —Arcade of two lower storeys preserved, 44; —Comparison of the number that each amphitheatre would contain, _ib._; —Seats remarkably well preserved, _ib._; —Dimensions of the three principal amphitheatres, Rome, Verona, Capua, 45; —and Capua, remains of aqueducts, 13. Vertical joints, open, between brick walls of galleries, and stone walls of corridors, 6. Vespasian and Titus, Walls of, 6. Vessels employed in _naumachia_ usually _rates_, 47. View of Jerusalem, century xvi., 29.