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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, AMPHITHEATRUM FLAVIUM (search)
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 (search)
flight of steps inside one leg of this huge figure see Mem. Am. Acad. v. 118. Remains of what may be the base on which it stood originally exist under the monastery of S. Francesca Romana. The mention of it in Hemerol. cit., colossus coronatur, is the last in antiquity, and is an interesting record of the persistence in Christian times of a picturesque spring festival celebrated by the sellers of garlands on the Sacra via. The famous saying quoted by Bede (Collect. 1. iii.), ' quamdiu stabit coliseus, stabit et Roma; quando cadet coliseus, cadet et Roma; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus,' should be referred, not to the amphitheatre but to the statue, which had no doubt fallen long before (Nissen, Ital. Landeskunde, ii. 538). And the early mediaeval mentions of insula, regio, rota colisei should be similarly explained (Jord. ii. 119, 319, 510). The name was not transferred to the building until about 1000 A.D. This is now Professor Hulsen's view (p. 6, n. 1); see BC 1926, 53-64.
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, VICUS PANISPERNAE (search)
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).