Note 148 — THE FLAVIAN AMPHITHEATRE, COMMONLY CALLED THE COLOSSEUM.
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Poggio the Florentine, writing in 1425, says that a large part of the building was reduced to lime by the stupidity of the Romans:—“... atque ob stultitiam Romanorum majori ex parte ad calcem delatum.” (Poggio, de Varietate Fortunæ, lib. i.)