Note 73 — PRINCE AHMAD AND THE FAIRY PERI-BANU.[63]
Richard Francis Burton translation
This shifting theatre is evidently borrowed by Galland from Pliny (N. H. xxxvi., 24) who tells that in B.C. 50, C. Curio built two large wooden theatres which could be wheeled round and formed into an amphitheatre. The simple device seems to stir the bile of the unmechanical old Roman, so unlike the Greek in powers of invention.