Show COMMA COLISEUM AT ROME MAE tho the emperor IcE pasian after his hia return from fro the jewish jai esix wr war in tile the year 72 of the christian era cra caused this ani ain to be built in that part of ancient 11 llamo bonill horo were ila pond sand gardens 0 of yero vero it wits was in fatir yeara and h his n son titus dedicated it ly by the thes elihugh lau h ter of five thousand wild beasts beast in the arena adrian caused tho the colossal statue of nero to be front from the iho of his own palace and placed in this ii a is litre it was worshiped biped as apollo the Coli souni dalri di es its name naino from Us its colossal dimensions being about 1700 eng ang aib feet feel in the foi mis in is oval it it aas As built of irn mence blocks ef caone add consists of four stories tho first stoby is adorned with xi ith doric columns colu inns hie file se ei jmj nd etith iti ionic on ic the third and fourth with tho entrances cro eighty in rv niber seventy six bong lor for the people two for tile gladiator and two for tho ilia E lini xii geror and his suite within the walls ecru twenty staircases leading to seats appropriated to the different el classes lisses of tile people tan scats scabs nrc are sid to lave held eighty seven thousand and the portico or gallery above them atheni twenty thousand there iv wa A an awning which ll covered the entire edifee in cize of rain or intense hent heat la in tho the wol offa of tho a story aro holes liolis ell posca to have contain contained cd tile the rings for fas telling the hie cords cards of oteliu chii awning in his martyrs says say there were rails of gold before tile seat scat of tile llie aloman senators to guard them front from the iho attacks of the ii ild acal tho tha air was iris refreshed by nican mean of inc machines hinCz ingeniously cont nied to throw tip wine and saffron ron water hah n i an odoriferous dew three thousand bronzed sta taci fine ene pictures pic turea colu columns of fesper and porphyry crystal balustrade vases uses of precious prec ioui i ork manship tills 1 ceno of savage vace cruelty Alli A hippopotamus prop ta us and sonic some crocodile i swam in in an artificia arlit arti fica iciel 1 I canal which surrounded tile the arena FI fite M hundred lions forty clcilia elephants clep hants its tiger lian pan panthers thera bulls bull sand and bar kept for tile li inhuman purpose or of tearing fiuman icings to afford ard amusement I 1 la their savage ipe species cies were heard ro roaring arini in i i tile tho cali cavars errIs hell tile lie of tile romans when their empire y ans as in tile tha I of its power |