[26] “Non patiemur duos Caios, vel duos Nerones, ne hac quidem gloria famæ frui: docebimusque etiam insaniam eorum victam privatis operibus M. Scauri, cujus nescio an ædilitas maxime prostraverit mores civiles, majusque sit Sullæ malum, tanta privigni potentia, quam proscriptio tot millium. Hic fecit in ædilitate sua opus maximum omnium, quæ unquam fuere humana manu facta, non temporaria mora, verum etiam æternitatis destinatione. Theatrum hoc fuit. Scena ei triplex in altitudinem, CCCLX columnarum, in ea civitate, quæ sex Hymettias non tulerat sine probro civis amplissimi. Ima pars scenæ e marmore fuit: media e vitro, inaudito etiam postea genere luxuriæ: summa, e tabulis inauratis.” (Plinii Nat. Hist., lib. xxxvi. 24. 7.) [27] The meaning of this appears to be that the upper part was temporary, and was removed shortly afterwards, as is related in another place; but the substructures were permanent, or eternal. [28] Dionis Hist. Rom., lib. xxxvii. c. 58. [29] Justi Lipsii de Amphitheatro liber, 1684; _et apud_ Grævii Thesaurus Ant. Rom., Lugd. Bat. 1699, folio, vol. ix. [30] “Alter in Amphitheatrali _cavea_ cum adfuturus spectaculis introiret.” (Ammiani Marcellini, lib. xxix. 1, Valentinianus, &c., A.D. 371.) [31] “Quid pulvis _Caveæ_ semper funebris et illa Amphitheatralis spectacula tristia pompæ.” (Prudentius contra Symmachum, lib. i. l. 384-5.) [32] “... stat cardine aperto Infelix _Cavea_ et clausis circum undique portis Hoc licuisse nefas pavidi timuere Leones.” (Statii Silvæ, lib. ii. 5; Leo Mansuetus imp., l. xi.) [33] Claudianus de laudibus Stilicho, lib. iii. [34] Lipsius has collected a host of extracts from the classical authors respecting this great amphitheatre, and the arrangement and amusements in it; but as the substance of these is given in the usual classical dictionaries, especially Dr. Smith’s, and they do not affect the history of the building, it is not necessary to repeat them here. [35] Polybii Hist., i. 84. [36] Cassiodori Variar., lib. v. epist. 42. [37] Livii Hist., xxxix. 22. [38] Ibid., xliv. 18. [39] Sig. Fabio Gori has collected all these passages, and given an Italian translation of them in his work entitled _Le memorie storiche, i giuochi e gli scavi dell’ anfiteatro Flavio_. Roma, 1874. [40] Suetonii Julius Cæsar, cap. 39. [41] That is, chariots on two wheels and others on four wheels. [42] “In minore _Codeta_, defosso lacu.” [43] Vessels with two, or three, or four rows of oars. [44] See Plate IX. [45] Every square yard of this part of Rome has been trenched in the search for statues in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and records of these numerous excavations are carefully preserved in the Miscellanea of Fea. Had there been any such building as would be required for this purpose anywhere near his palace, it must have come to light, and nothing of the kind has been found. [46] See Plate II.