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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
AMPHITHEATRUM FLAVIUM
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AMPHITHEATRUM FLAVIUM
* ordinarily known as the Colosseum, For the name see COLOSSUS NERONIS: it was not transferred to the amphitheatre until
after 1000 A.D. (HCh 265, 380, 394, 426; HFP 52; BC 1926, 53-64).
built by Vespasian, in the depression between the Velia, the Esquiline and the Caelian, a site previously occupied by the stagnum of Nero's domus Aurea(Suet. Vesp. 9; Mart. de spect. 2. 5; Aur. Vict. Caes. 9. 7). Vespasian carried the structure to the top of the second arcade of the outer wall and of the maenianum secundum of the cavea (see below), and dedicated it before his death in 79 A.D. (Chronogr. a. 354, P. 146). Titus added the third and fourth stories The word used is 'gradus,' which applies to the interior; Vespasian may, Hulsen
thinks, have completed a great part of the Corinthian order of the exterior.
(ib.), and celebrated the dedication of the enlarged building in 80 with magnificent games that lasted one hundred days (Suet. Titus 7; Cass. Dio lxvi. 25; Hier
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
COLOSSUS NERONIS
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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
VICUS PANISPERNAE
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VICUS PANISPERNAE
This name is probably derived from that of an
ancient locality (a vicus?) near the church of S. Lorenzo in Panisperna
on the Viminal. The name comes into use about l000 A.D.; it was
previously, e.g. in Eins. I. II; 5.7; 7. 13, called S. Laurentii in Formoso or
ad Formosum, from the name of its founder (HCh 292-293; cf. HJ 376).