Note 34 — THE FLAVIAN AMPHITHEATRE, COMMONLY CALLED THE COLOSSEUM.

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.