1037 ([return])
[ About $400,000. To those who are not acquainted with the immense riches of the ancients, it may seem incredible that a city, and not the capital one either, of a conquered province should expend so large a sum of money upon only the shell (as it appears to be) of a theatre: but Asia was esteemed the most considerable part of the world for wealth; its fertility and exportations (as Tully observes) exceeding that of all other countries. M.]
1038 ([return])
[ The word carte, in the original, comprehends more than what we call the pit in our theatres, as at means the whole space lit which the spectators sat. These theatres being open at the top, the galleries here mentioned were for the convenience of retiring in bad weather. M.]
1039 ([return])
[ A place in which the athletic exercises were performed, and where the philosophers also used to read their lectures. M.]
1040 ([return])
[ The Roman foot consisted of 11.71 inches of our standard, M.]
1041 ([return])
[ A colony in the district of Cataonia, in Cappadocia.]