[33] Claudianus de laudibus Stilicho, lib. iii.
[34] 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.
[35] Polybii Hist., i. 84.
[36] Cassiodori Variar., lib. v. epist. 42.
[37] Livii Hist., xxxix. 22.
[38] Ibid., xliv. 18.
[39] Sig. Fabio Gori has collected all these passages, and given an Italian translation of them in his work entitled Le memorie storiche, i giuochi e gli scavi dell’ anfiteatro Flavio. Roma, 1874.
[40] Suetonii Julius Cæsar, cap. 39.
[41] That is, chariots on two wheels and others on four wheels.
[42] “In minore Codeta, defosso lacu.”