61 ([return])
[ A.U.C. 706.]
62 ([return])
[ Elephants were first introduced at Rome by Pompey the Great, in his African triumph.]
63 ([return])
[ VENI, VIDI, VICI.]
64 ([return])
[ A.U.C. 708.]
65 ([return])
[ Gladiators were first publicly exhibited at Rome by two brothers called Bruti, at the funeral of their father, A.U.C. 490; and for some time they were exhibited only on such occasions. But afterwards they were also employed by the magistrates, to entertain the people, particularly at the Saturnalia, and feasts of Minerva. These cruel spectacles were prohibited by Constantine, but not entirely suppressed until the time of Honorius.]