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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 At each extremity of the spina were pla
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 At each extremity of the spina were placed,upon a base (E, E), three wooden cylinders, of aconical shape, like cypress trees (metasqite imitatacupressus, Ovid, Met. x. 106; compare Plin. H. 60), which were called metae—the situation is distinctly seen in the precedingwoodcut, but their form is more fully developed inthe one annexed, copied from a marble in theBritish Museum.
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