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¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 Rome 678
¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 the larger part of it yet remains to show us the shape-
¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 Looking down into the Arena we tried to imagine ourselves a part of the gay and be-jewelled Roman audience which so many times viewed from those highths the terrible scenes of carnage below.
¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 The arena itself was about three hundred feet long by two hundred feet wide and I can scarcely believe the story that at Trajans triumph three thousand men fought at once in a naval combat.
¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 It is said that upon its completion under Titus the inaugural gladiatorial combats lasted one hundred days and that five thousand wild beasts were slain. Blood thirsty wretches-
¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 In AD 404 an eastern monk Almachius or Talemachus rushed in to separate the combatants, when he was slain by the order of the Praetor Alypius-
¶ 7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 The sitting and standing room for spectators would accommodate nearly an hundred thousand-
¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 The building was in good order during seven hundred years-
¶ 9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 0 In AD 405 Honorius abolished gladiatorial combats as inconsistent with christianity permitting only wild beast and bull fights-
¶ 10 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 0 Now, on every Wednesday at three oclock the devout make a pilgrimage to the little chapel within-
¶ 11 Leave a comment on paragraph 11 0 Near the upper cornice was a a [sic] colonnade where the sailors stayed to attend to the sail-cloth roof when the sun was too hot. The ropes were passed through the walls and fastened to masts which were held by the stone projections still to be seen.
¶ 12 Leave a comment on paragraph 12 0 As we were
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