[96] Pliny, b. viii.
[97] Ayeen Akbery, vol. i. p. 242.
[98] Herodotus, Clio, cxci. We may conjecture that tiger has been written for leopard, a frequent error.
[99] Montfaucon, vol. iii. p. 179.
[100] Augustan History, “Severus,” p. 253. “Wherever Caracalla wintered, or but intended to winter, they were constrained to erect amphitheatres and cirques for public games, and those within a while were taken down again.”—Hakewill’s Apology, p. 443. Caracalla was three years at York; and Spartian, in his Life of Severus, relates, that among other omens just before that emperor died, (at York,) three figures of Victory, which stood upon the platform near the throne, were blown down while the games of the circus were celebrating. There was a Roman road from York to Whitby (Dunus Sinus), and Kirkdale is about half way between the port and the capital.
[101] Rees’s Cyc. “Cahors.”
[102] Marquis Maffei, p. 260.
[103] Herodian, “Commodus.”
[104] The Tartar opens a vein of his horse and drinks the blood.
[105] Martial (Elphinston’s, p. 19) on the Sports of Domitian.