Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . as we learn from the sculptures on Trajans column. Thecompanion of this man has transfixed a bull, which flies, 240 P03IPEII. carrying with him the heavy lance with which he is turns his head towards his assailant, and seems to wishto return to the attack; the man by his gestures appearsastonished, beholding himself disarmed and at the mercy oithe animal, whom he thought mortally stric
Pompeii, its history, buildings, and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations, and also an itinerary for visitors . as we learn from the sculptures on Trajans column. Thecompanion of this man has transfixed a bull, which flies, 240 P03IPEII. carrying with him the heavy lance with which he is turns his head towards his assailant, and seems to wishto return to the attack; the man by his gestures appearsastonished, beholding himself disarmed and at the mercy oithe animal, whom he thought mortally stricken. Pliny(lib. viii. cap. 45) speaks of the ferocity shown by bulls in thesecombats, and of having seen them, when stretched for deadon the arena, lift themselves up and renew the following cuts represent the helmets of two of thefigures at large, and the greaves, or Another sort of amphitheatrical amusements consisted inwitnessing the death of persons under sentence of the law,either by the hands of the executioner, or by being exposedto the fury of savage animals. The early Christians wereespecially subjected to this species of cruelty. Nero availedhimself of the prejudice against them to turn aside popularindignation after the great conflagration of Eome, which is THE AMPHITHEATRE. 241 commonly ascribed to bis own wanton love of mischief; andwe learn from Tertullian, that, after great public misfor-tunes, the cry of the populace was, To the lions witb theChristians.* The Coliseum now owes its preservation tothe Christian blood so profusely shed within its serving during ages as a quarry of hewn stone for theuse of all whose station and power entitled them to a sharein public plunder, it was at last secured from further injuryby Pope Benedict XIV., wbo consecrated the building aboutthe middle of the last century, and placed it under
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