 | John Alonzo Clark - 1840 - Broj stranica: 588
...wild beasts were engaged, there were other sanguinary spectacles in which gladiators contended either in single combat, or large bodies of horse and foot fought with each other. Not only gladiators, but senators, and even women were sometimes compelled to appear in the Circus... | |
 | P. Austin Nuttall - 1840 - Broj stranica: 722
...The elephants were intoxicated with wine and incense. Besides the hattles in which wild beasts were engaged, there were other sanguinary spectacles, in which gladiators either contended in single comhat, or large bodies of horse and foot fought with each other. — It appears from the chronicle... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - Broj stranica: 446
...elephants and other beasts from coming at the people. Besides the battles in which wild beasts were engaged, there were other sanguinary spectacles, in...latter was rather a, kind of interlude to the former. It appears ffom the chronicle of Cassiodorus, that athletic games were first exhibited in the year... | |
 | John Timbs - 1858 - Broj stranica: 272
...Cloths were used to irritate the lions and bears ; and wild boars had a strong aversion to white cloths. There were other sanguinary spectacles, in which gladiators...in single combat or large bodies of horse and foot. Cassiodorus chronicles that the athletic games were first exhibited in the year of Rome 567 ; and Livy... | |
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Besides the battles in which wild beasts were engaged, there were other sanguinary spectacles, in which gladiators either contended in single combat, or large bodies of horse and foot fought with each other. The usual division of the daily amusements... 