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" Doomed to die.] — Ver. 26. The Romans were wont to exhibit shows of hunting in the amphitheatre in the morning ; and at mid-day the gladiatorial spectacles commenced. The ' arena' was the name given to the central open space, which derived its name... "
The Fasti, Tristia, Pontic epistles ... (The Metamorphoses. The Heroides ... - Página 380
por Publius Ovidius Naso - 1851
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A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities, ed. by W. Smith

Greek antiquities - 1848 - 1322 páginas
...v&icua amp&itheatri. It only remains to describe the arena, or central open space for the combatants, which derived its name from the sand with which it...covered, chiefly for the purpose of absorbing the blood. Such emperors as Caligula, Nero, and Carinus, showed their prodigality by using cinnabar and borax...
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

William Smith - 1859 - 1334 páginas
...villicus amjrfiitlieatri. It only remains to describe the arena, or central open space for the combatints, which derived its name from the sand with which it...covered, chiefly for the purpose of absorbing the blood. Such emperors as Caligula, Nero, ami Carinus, showed their prodigality by using cinnabar and borax...
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

William Smith - 1870 - 1312 páginas
...villicus amphitheatri. It only remains to describe the arena, or central open space for the combatants, which derived its name from the sand with which it...covered, chiefly for the purpose of absorbing the blood. Such emperors as Caligula, Nero, and Carinus, showed their prodigality by using cinnabar and borax...
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Ovid - 1877 - 614 páginas
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A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

William Smith - 1898 - 886 páginas
...the superintendence of the vilicus amphitheatri. The arena, or central open space for the combatants, derived its name from the sand with which it was covered, chiefly for the purpose of absorbing the blood. Such emperors AMPHITHEATRUM aa Caligula and Nero showed their prodigality by using cinnabar and borax...
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Volumen1

William Smith - 1901 - 1150 páginas
...It only remains to describe the arena, or •i-ntral open space for the combatants, which -.- nvi.-d its name from the sand with which it was covered, chiefly for the purjiose of absorbing the blood. Such emperors as Caligula, Nero, and Carinus, showed their prodigality...
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The metamorphoses of Ovid

Ovid - 323 páginas
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Metamorphoses

Ovid - 1919 - 578 páginas
...bard, and hurl the thyrsi, covered with z Doomed to die.'} — Ver. 26. The Romans were wont to exlNbit shows of hunting in the amphitheatre in the morning...spectators from the animals. They were introduced by Julius Ctesar, but were filled up by Nero, to gain space for the spectators. Those who fought witli the beasts...
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