Note 384 — OCTAVIUS
Adnah David Jones translation
The figure cannot be read. The great number of gladiators who fought, and no doubt perished in these bloody fêtes will be noticed. Seneca, to show how far men can become indifferent to death, relates that, under Tiberius, a gladiator complained of the rarity of these grand massacres; and alluding to the time of Augustus said: “That was a good time! Quam bella aetas periit!”