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C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 44 (search)
He corrected the confusion and disorder with which the spectators took their seats at the public games, after an affront which was offered to a senator at Puteoli, for whom, in a crowded theatre, no one would make room.
He therefore procured a decree of the senate, that in all public spectacles of any sort, and in any place whatever, the first tier of benches should be left empty for the accommodation of senators.
He would not even permit the ambassadors of free nations, nor of those which were allies of Rome, to sit in the orchestra; having found that some manumitted slaves had been sent under that character.
He separated the soldiery from the rest of the people, and assigned to married plebeians their particular rows of seats.
To the boys he assigned their own benches, and to their tutors the seats which were nearest it; ordering that none clothed in black should sit in the centre of the circle.The Cavea was the name of the whole of that part of the theatre
where the spectators sat
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 96 (search)
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Claudius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 25 (search)
After such a commencement of his career, he conducted his affairs, during the greater part of his reign, entirely by the advice and direction of the vilest amongst the players and charioteers, and especially his freedman Asiaticus.
This fellow had, when young, been engaged with him in a course of riotous living, but, being at last quite tired of the occupation, ran away.
His master, some time after, caught him at Puteoli, selling a liquor called Posca,Posca was sour wine or vinegar mixed with water, which was used
by the Roman soldiery as their common drink. It has been found
beneficial in the cure of putrid diseases. and put him in chains, but soon released him, and retained him in his former capacity.
Growing weary, however, of his rough and stubborn temper, he sold him to a strolling-fencing-master; after which, when the fellow was to have been brought up to play his part at the conclusion of an entertainment of gladiators, he suddenly carried him off, and at length, upon his bei