By means of these, the ground plan of the cavea of the theatre can be completely restored.
Bernardo, part of the cavea of a theatre (A) with a radius of about seventy yards, may be traced, not unlike that in the Thermae of Titus.
Footnote 186: The Cavea was the name of the whole of that part of the theatre where the spectators sat.
Of the part of this amphitheater set aside for the spectators the cavea ima only was supported upon artificial foundations.
In the cavea media and the cavea summa the seats were of stone resting on the bank of earth.
Access to the arena and to the seats of the cavea ima and the cavea media was given by the two underground passageways, 1 and 2 in Fig.
The cavea afforded seats for about five thousand persons.
The lowest seat of the media cavea had at the middle, directly opposite the stage, a double width for a distance of about five feet, gained by removing a portion of the next seat above.
The seats of the ima cavea and media cavea were reached through a vaulted passage (4), which, in accordance with ancient usage, we may call a crypt.
The sloping wall between the tribunal and the cavea on each side ends with a kneeling Atlas (Fig.
The marble seats in the cavea may be assigned to the same period; in the original structure the benches must have been of tufa.
The middle division was separated from the summa cavea (8) by a low parapet with a narrow passage (praecinctio, b) on the upper side.
The middle section, media cavea (5), was much deeper, extending from the ima cavea to the vaulted corridor.
This sort of covering for the theatre was a Campanian invention, and here, where the cavea opened toward the south, was especially necessary.
The Caveawas the name of the whole of that part of the theatre where the spectators sat.
A low wall, rising behind the fourth range and surmounted with a marble rail that has now disappeared, separated this lowermost cavea from the rest.
The citizens who occupied the central cavea brought their cushions with them or folded their spotless togas on the seats before they took their places.
The seats of the three cavea were of blocks of lava; and there can still be seen in them the hollows in which the occupants placed their feet so as not to soil the spectators below them.
The Campanians first invented the means of stretching awnings over their theatres, by means of cords stretched across the cavea and attached to masts which passed through perforated blocks of stone deeply bedded in the wall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cavea" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
