A dictionary of Greek and Roman . enas, an hip-popotamos and rhinoceros, 10 archoleontes (it isunknown what they were), 10 camelopards, 20onagri (wild asses, or perhaps zebras), 40 wildhorses, and an immense number of similar animals.(Vopisc. Gordian, 33.) How long these spectacles continued is uncer-tain, but they were exhibited after the abolitionof the shows of gladiators. There is a law ofHonorius and Theodosius, providing for the safeconvoy of beasts intended for the spectacles, andinflicting a penalty of five pounds of gold upon anyone who injured them. (Cod. 11. tit. 44.)
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . enas, an hip-popotamos and rhinoceros, 10 archoleontes (it isunknown what they were), 10 camelopards, 20onagri (wild asses, or perhaps zebras), 40 wildhorses, and an immense number of similar animals.(Vopisc. Gordian, 33.) How long these spectacles continued is uncer-tain, but they were exhibited after the abolitionof the shows of gladiators. There is a law ofHonorius and Theodosius, providing for the safeconvoy of beasts intended for the spectacles, andinflicting a penalty of five pounds of gold upon anyone who injured them. (Cod. 11. tit. 44.) Theywere exhibited at this period at the praetoriangames, as we learn from Symmachus. (Epist , 71, 126, &c.) Wild beasts continued to beexhibited in the games at Constantinople as lateas the time of Justinian. (Procop. Hist. Arc. c. 9.) Combats of wild beasts are sometimes repre-sented on the coins of Roman families, as on theannexed coin of M. Livineius Regulus, which pro-bably refers to the venatio of Julius Caesar men-tioned In the bas-reliefs on the tomb of Scaurus atPompeii, there are representations of combats withwild beasts, which are copied in the followingwoodcuts from Mazois (Pomp. i. pi. 32, 33). Onthe same tomb gladiatorial combats are repre-sented, which are figured on p. 576 of the presentwork.
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