. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. eo cedat labor ampliitheatro,Uuiim pro cunctis fama loquatur opus. The greater axis of the ellipsis on which it is planned is about 627 feet, and the lesser520 feet, the height of the outer wall about 166 feet, such wall being decorated l)y theDoric, Ionic, and Corinthian Orders, and pierced with arcades between the five English acres and a quarter, it was capable of containing the vastnumber of 87,000 persons. It has suffered much
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. eo cedat labor ampliitheatro,Uuiim pro cunctis fama loquatur opus. The greater axis of the ellipsis on which it is planned is about 627 feet, and the lesser520 feet, the height of the outer wall about 166 feet, such wall being decorated l)y theDoric, Ionic, and Corinthian Orders, and pierced with arcades between the five English acres and a quarter, it was capable of containing the vastnumber of 87,000 persons. It has suffered much from having been used actually as -dquarry for many of the modern edifices of the city ; but in the present day its pre-servation is strictly attended to by the papal government. A description of this buildinghas been o-iyen in p. 94 ct scg. Besides the Coliseum, there were three other amphi-theatres in Rome: the Amphitheatrum Castrense, on the Esquiline, built proliably byTiberius; that of Statilius Taurus, and that built by Trajan in the Campius other principal amphitheatres were those of Otricoli; on the Garighano, of brick j. 1208 GLOSSARY. Puzzuoli, Capua, Verona, at the foot of Monte Casino, Pa?stum, S3Tacuse, Agrigentiim,Catanea, Argos, Corinth, Pola in Istria (see^y. 1362.), Hipella in Spain, Nismes, Arled,Frejus, Saintee, andAutun. This last haslour stories, in that re-spect like the which remains in? the most perfect condi-tion is at Verona; itsago has not been accu-rately determined, someplacing it in the ageof Augustus, and othersin that of Maximian; ofthese, MafFei thinks thefirst date too early, and Fig. 1362. Amphitheatre at Pola. the latter too late. The silence of Pliny upon it, seems to place it after the time of his writing. In the reign ofGallienus, it was not only built, but began to suffer from dilapidation, for many of thestones belonging to it are found in the walls of Verona, which walls were erected in thetime of that emperor
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