There are amphitheatres and mighty aisles eight miles long and three or four miles wide and three or four thousand feet deep.
We have arrived at the time when the bear baiting attracted less than the play acting: when the amphitheatres were turned into theatres: and when Bankside became the residence of the poets and the players.
Next day, the queen being seated under a canopy of jewels, and the amphitheatres filled with all the gentlemen and ladies of rank in Babylon, the combatants appeared in the circus.
Two other amphitheatres were decked out; the one with the fruits of each season, the other with crystal decanters, that sparkled with the choicest wines.
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.
All the collections of fossil bones are found at the head-quarters of the Romans, or near the several amphitheatres in the island.
Combats with bulls were common in ancient Thessaly as well as in the amphitheatres of imperial Rome, but probably partook more of the nature of worrying than fighting, like the bull-baiting formerly common in England.
Not very much is known concerning it; but its dimensions have been determined by excavations that prove it to have been the largest of the known amphitheatres of France, as it is of Burgundy as a whole.
The cirques, or great amphitheatres of mountains, are a characteristic of the Pyrenees, and the Cirque de Gavarnie is the king of them all.
The limited means of this small city were not adequate to make provision for the elaborate equipment and costly decoration found in the amphitheatres of larger towns.
Also corpses are in place on any arena of any amphitheatre anywhere inside our frontiers; fighting inside amphitheatres is proper and seemly.
They also confirmed my impression that few animals destined for beast-fights in the amphitheatres reached Rome overland; as I had thought, practically all had hitherto come by sea and up the Tiber.
A little east of the city there are two natural bays or amphitheatres opposite to each other in the mountains.
They rise like a dream in the desolation of the wilderness, columns and arches and vaults and amphitheatres and temples, suddenly appearing in the bare and lonely landscape as if by enchantment.
The ruins of hundreds of amphitheatres attest the universality of the custom, not in Rome alone, but in the provinces.
Such chambers have been found in the amphitheatres of Capua and Pozzuoli as well as in the Colosseum.
The remains of numerous amphitheatres exist in the various provinces of the empire.
Next, the route leads out upon the level, treeless surface of the Paunsaugunt Plateau, and comes with startling unexpectedness to one of the splendid amphitheatres of the Pahreah Basin.
These Titanic terraces and palisaded plateaus, more particularly the flaming canyons and jeweled amphitheatres cut from their color-saturated rock layers, form scenic spectacles without peer or rival on the globe.
Illustration: One of the Amphitheatres of Cedar Breaks] The Wet Trail The Canyon continues some eight miles farther, but its exploration is only for the adventurous few.
This occupation had become for him so agreeable that later, when in Rome, and forced to live without hunting, he went to vivaria and amphitheatresjust to look at beasts known and unknown to him.
The lions were to be kept for the next day; but in the amphitheatres the people imposed their will on every one, even on Cæsar.
The first amphitheatres ever built were generally of wood, a material little adapted for this kind of building, and that on more than one occasion came to grief either from fire, or from the collapse of the entire structure.
Its operating amphitheatres would increase the opportunity for clinical instruction, as would a great free outpatient clinic, conducted primarily for the benefit of the poor.
The two large operating amphitheatres in the Philippine General Hospital were planned with especial reference to the accommodation of students, who could pass along a gallery from one to the other.
Though not the first of the amphitheatreswhich were erected, its enormous size rendered the erection of subsequent ones unnecessary.
In one of these improvised amphitheatres I saw an officer illustrating the proper method of using the gas-mask to a class of 600 men.
Gannal has made numerous experiments on the preservation of dead bodies, either with the view of making dissecting amphitheatres more healthful, or to obtain a method of embalming at the same time economical and certain.
The judgment which we are about to give should then be considered as applying exclusively to processes concerning the amphitheatres of dissection.
Your commission thinks, then, that it has reason to recommend the adoption of this process in the amphitheatres of dissection, notwithstanding it may occasion a slight increase of expense.
The vast area of the Roman amphitheatres had no roof, but the audience were protected against the sun and bad weather by temporary hangings stretched over it.
From Gaul to Syria, wherever the Roman influence extended, the spectacles of blood were introduced, and the gigantic remains of amphitheatres in many lands still attest by their ruined grandeur the scale on which they were pursued.
The history of the amphitheatres is given very minutely by Friedlaender, who, like nearly all other antiquaries, believes this to have been the first of stone.
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