By a singular coincidence, Lampadius was also the name of the Prefect who restored the Flavian amphitheatre in A.D. 445; but though the surname is the same, the prename is not, he was probably of the same family.
[195] This would be at least equal to £200 of modern money.
[196] Anfiteatro Campano illustrato e Restorato da Franceso Alvino terza edizione col paragone di tutti gli anfiteatri D’Italia ed un cenno sugli antichi monumenti di Capua. Napoli, 1842.
[197] The Neapolitan palm is ten inches English measure. If the measurements of Signor Alvino are reduced to English measure, they do not agree with those of Messrs. Taylor and Crecy for the Colosseum; as he used the same scale for all three, the proportions are the same.
[198] In Rome these are Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Composite; at Verona, all Tuscan; at Capua, all Doric.
[199] I am indebted for this clear account of the amphitheatre at Pola to Lord Talbot de Malahide, who was there in October, 1875. The excellent drawings of Mr. Arthur Glennie, who resided at Pola for one whole summer, also agree perfectly with the excellent account of that remarkable building, which further contributes to illustrate the Colosseum at Rome. An excellent account of Pola appeared about the same time in the Saturday Review, but this is more general, not so specially written with this object in view.
[200] “Notissimus eques Romanus elephanto supersedens per catadromum decucurrit.” (Suetonii Nero, cap. xi. Xiphil. lxi.)
“Ego eo vocabulo funem intelligo, qui summo theatro alligatus, declinis ad imum theatri pertinebat solum defigebaturque, per quem descendere maximi periculi et artis atque adeo miraculi erat.” (Turnebo, Adv. xxvii. 18.)
[201] “Icarus, primo statim conatu, juxta cubiculum ejus (Neronis) decidit, ipsumque cruore respersit.” (Suetonii Nero, c. 12.)