Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . ria, as I mentioned when I fpoke of the amphitheatre atRome, p. 350. Each order of people had a certain number ofrows afiigned them for their proper feats ; the fenators had theloweft, as bed for feeing, being neareft ; the knights the nextabove them ; after thefe were placed the citizens, and then thecommon people; above all, the fervants had their length of the arena I found to be eighty of my paces, thebreadth forty-fix ; the more particular meafures, and generaldefcription
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . ria, as I mentioned when I fpoke of the amphitheatre atRome, p. 350. Each order of people had a certain number ofrows afiigned them for their proper feats ; the fenators had theloweft, as bed for feeing, being neareft ; the knights the nextabove them ; after thefe were placed the citizens, and then thecommon people; above all, the fervants had their length of the arena I found to be eighty of my paces, thebreadth forty-fix ; the more particular meafures, and generaldefcription of the whole, may be ken in Defgodetz, Panvini,and Torelli. In a court which leads to the academy of belles-lettres, offencing, and of mufick, (adjoining to which there is now builta new theatre for operas) the wall is fet full of antique infcrip-tions and baffo-relievos. I obferved among them a votive in-fcription, which feems to have been made in the early ages ofChriftianity. DEO MAGNO AETERNL . STATIVS DI*ForQVOD. ODORVS QVOT * SE PRECIBVS COMPOTEM FECISSET V . S . L . M . Another -/%$>: $a/2<? /W/m^ #fa?9<tiM£7<al & annuel, a£ ^nv/rf. VERONA, 485 Another there was to Ms, &C, ISIDI SERAPIDI LIBERO LIBERAE VOTO SVSCEPTO PRO SALVTE SCAPVLAE FILl SVI. S . L . M . Another j D. RETIARTO INVICTO PVGNARVM XXVII QVI PVGNAVIT V1R [ILITER *] A Gentleman, very well verfed in thefe matters, inftead of[VIR] reads [VB,] and fuppofes the whole word to have beenubique or lubens. But I believe my reading is ripht, findingthe fame in Torelli; who wrote near two hundred years ago,when the infeription muft have been plainer, in all probability,than it is now. Torelli does not give any fuppofition how thereft of the word might have been. There is another fhort one, to a deceasd wife (or daughter.] HPAKAEIA MNA SIA02 XPH2TH XAIPE Among the baffo-relievos there is an Epulum Funebre faFuneral Banquet] where both men and women are feaftin,inferibed thus j ° ETKAEA
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