. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . COLOSSEUM. erected by Vespasian, appears to have been originallydesigned by Augustus. (Suet. Vesp. 9.) It stoodon the site previously occupied by the lake of Nero,between the Velia and the Esquiline. (Mart. Sped. 2. 5), and was capable of containing 87,000 per-sons. (Notitia, Reg. iii.) A complete descriptionof this magnificent building will be found in theDictionai-y of Antiquities, and need not be re-. G ROUND PLAN OF peated here. It was not completely erected, tillthe reign of Domitian ; though Titus dedicated itin the year 80. (Suet. Tit. 7 ; Aur
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . COLOSSEUM. erected by Vespasian, appears to have been originallydesigned by Augustus. (Suet. Vesp. 9.) It stoodon the site previously occupied by the lake of Nero,between the Velia and the Esquiline. (Mart. Sped. 2. 5), and was capable of containing 87,000 per-sons. (Notitia, Reg. iii.) A complete descriptionof this magnificent building will be found in theDictionai-y of Antiquities, and need not be re-. G ROUND PLAN OF peated here. It was not completely erected, tillthe reign of Domitian ; though Titus dedicated itin the year 80. (Suet. Tit. 7 ; Aur. Vict. 7.) In the reign of Macrinus it was so muchdamaged by a fire, occasioned by lightning, that itwas necessary to exhibit the gladiatores and vena-tiones for several years in the Stadium. (Dion 25.) The restoration was undertaken by THE COLOSSEUM. Elagabalus, and completed by Alexander Severus.(Lampr. Hel. 17, Alex. 24.) It suffered a similarcalamity under Decius (Hieron. Chron. p. 475);but the damage was again made good, and vena-tiones, or combats with wild beasts, were exhibitedin it as late as the 6th century. In the middleages it was converted into a fortress; and at a laterperiod a great part of it was destroyed by the themselves, in order to build the Carxel-leria and the Paiamo Fmmue with the , however, is still left to render it one of the EOMA. 847 most striking and important
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