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CHAPTER XXX

. THE AMPHITHEATRE

_Of amphitheatres in general, and gladiatorial sports_: FRIEDLAENDER, Darstellungen aus der Sittengeschichte Roms in der Zeit von August bis zum Ausgang der Antonine, Edit. 6 (3 parts, here cited as volumes, Leipzig, 1888-1890), vol. 2, pp. 358-435, Edit. 7, vol. 2, pp. 45-66; briefer statement by FRIEDLAENDER in Marquardt's Staatsverwaltung, Edit. 2, vol. 3, pp. 554-565; MEIER, De gladiatura Romana quaestiones selectae (Bonn, 1881).

_Gladiatorial combats in Campania and in Rome_ [pp. 212-213]: Strabo, V. IV. 12 (p. 250, C); Valer. Max. II. IV. 7; Liv. Epit. XVI. and XXIII. XXX. 15. For the games following Caesar's triumph, see Suet. Div. Iul., XXXIX. App. Bel. Civ. II. XV. 102 and Dio. Cas. XLIII. 22.

_Excavation of the Amphitheatre_ (1748, 1813-1816): FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 1, pp. 5-6, pt. 3, pp. 114 et seq., 185, 189.

_Remains_: MAZOIS, Les ruines de Pompei, vol. 4, pp. 77-86, pl. 43-47; FIORELLI, Descrizione di Pompei, pp. 69-74; NISSEN, Pomp. Studien, pp. 97-127.

_Paintings_ [pp. 213, 214], HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, nos. 1514, 1515, 1519; cf. also nos. 1512-1513, 1516-1518, and SOGLIANO, Le pitture murali Campane, nos. 665-668.

_Inscriptions relating to the building, or found on it_ [pp. 212, 218, 219]: C. I. L. X. 852-859; painted inscriptions and graffiti, C. I. L. IV. pp. 7, 64-66, 159.

_Inscriptions relating to the games_ [pp. 221 et seq.]--_announcements_: C. I. L. IV. 1177-1204, Suppl. 3881-3884. _Programme_ [p. 223]: C. I. L. IV. 2508. _Custos, ostiarius ab amphitheatro_ [p. 225]: C. I. L. VI. 6226, 6228. _Inscription of Salvius Capito_ [p. 225]: C. I. L. IX. 465, 466 (cf. also C. I. L. X. 4920). _Names of gladiators, with their records_ [pp. 225-226]: C. I. L. IV., see Index, under gladiatores, p. 255. _Graffiti in the house on Nola Street_ [p. 226]: C. I. L. IV. Suppl. 4277-4393; and Roem. Mitth., vol. 5 (1890), pp. 25-39, 64-65, vol. 7 (1892), p. 23.

_Combat between the Pompeians and the Nucerians_ [pp. 220, 221]: Tac. Ann. XIV. XVII. _Painting_ (Fig. 101; found Ins. I. III. 23), DE PETRA, L' Anfiteatro pompeiano rappresentato in un antico dipinto, giornale degli scavi di Pompei, Nuova Serie, vol. 1 (1869), pp. 185-187, pl. 8; MATZ, Bull. dell' Inst., 1869, pp. 240-241; SOGLIANO, Le pitture murali Campane, no. 604. _Inscriptions_ [see p. 492]: C. I. L. IV. 1293 (with caricature, figured Museo Borb., vol. 6, pl. C), 1329, 2183.