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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 5 5 Browse Search
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o a minimum of 140,000, but no certainty has been reached (BC 1894, 321-324; Richter 178; HJ 137; RE iii. 2578). Throughout the republic the circus was used for gladiatorial combats and fights with wild beasts, as well as for races; but after the building of the amphitheatre of Statilius Taurus, and still more after the erection of the Colosseum, the first species of entertainment was largely, although not entirely removed from the circus. The last recorded games took place under Totila in 550 A.D. (Procop. b. Goth. iii. 37), and in that century the destruction of the circus began. The form of the circus was still clearly recognisable in the sixteenth century (DuP 107-112). At present a small portion of the seats at the curved end, on the N.E. side, are still visible, and traces were found further N.W. in making a drain in 1873-4 along the Via dei Cerchi (Mora in Messaggero, 25th March, 1924). The name de gradellis, applied to churches of S. Gregorio and S. Maria (HCh 258, 336 sqq.)