A dictionary of Greek and Roman . CIRCUS. terruption to the uniform line of seats (C), be-tokening also, from its construction, a place ofdistinction; which might have been assigned tothe person at whose expense the games were given(editor spectaculorum). In the centre of the area was a low wall (D) running lengthways down the course, which,from its resemblance to the position of the dorsalbone in the human frame, was termed spina. (Cas-siodor. Var. Ep. iii. 51.) It is represented in thewood-cut subjoined, taken from an ancient bas-relief.

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