LUDUS MAGNUS
to judge from its name, the principal training school for
gladiators in Rome. It was in
Region III (Not. Cur.), and is represented on a fragment (4) of the Marble Plan as a rectangular court,
about 60 by 90 metres in size, surrounded with small chambers and
containing an elliptical enclosure. Other references (
Herod. i. 15. 8,
16. 3;
CIL vi. 1645, 1647
(=x. 1710), 7659, 10164-10170) give no
information as to its location, but it was probably one of the four
established by Domitian (Chron. 146) near the Colosseum, perhaps at
the beginning of the via Labicana (HJ 298-299) or just east of
S. Clemente (Atti del Congresso Storico 1907, i. 115).
