“Catabolum est clausura animalium, ubi desuper aliquid jacitur.” (Vossii, Lexicon Etymologicum.)
The Catabolensis or Catabolici were the men who fed the wild beasts, and threw down their food from the small passage before mentioned. (See p. [17].)
[208] “Addidit alia die in Amphitheatro una missione centum jubatos leones, qui rugitibus suis tonitru excitabant; qui omnes e POSTICIS interempti sunt, non magnum præbentes spectaculum quo occidebantur. Neque enim erat bestiarum impetus ille, qui esse e caveis egredientibus olet.” (Vopisci Probus, c. 19, ap. Script. Hist. Aug.)
[209] “Ut sæpe faciunt amphitheatrales feræ diffractis tandem solutæ POSTICIS.” (Ammianus Marcellinus, lib. 27.)
[210] “Stat. Cardine aperto—Infelix cavea.” The door opening on a hinge or a pivot.
[211] “Feras lybicas una die centum exhibuit, ursos una die mille.” (Julii Capitolini, i. c. 3, ap. Script. Hist. Aug.)
“... Auro quoque torta refulgent
Retia, quæ totis in Arenam dentibus extant.
... nec non, ubi finis Arenæ,