The Roman History From the Foundation of Rome to the Battle of Actium : That Is, to the End of the Commonwealth 3
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Contemni fe judicat, ut vultu, geftu, ax- ore de fpeCtatore- 1» adverfarium vertitur, Sknec, de Ira, i. Of the Combats of the GLADIATORS. 241 pairs of gladiators, and never lefs than fifty. But^io.in what may feem ahnoft incredible, long before him, ^^^^^* Trajan, the model of good Emperors, had given thefe fliews to the people an hundred and tv/enty- three days together, during which time ten thoufand gladiators appeared on the Arena, They were formed at Rome into different compa- nies ; and t...he people took the part of one againft another, with a violence and fury that often termi- nated in bloody feditions. The example of the capi- tal was foon followed by the other citie§, and the whole empire was infedled with a fanguinary diver- fion, the horror of which Seneca exprefles in few words. " Man, fays he, the facred creature man, is Ep. 9.6J efteemed of fo little value, that we make it a fport, a diverfion, to mangle and butcher him." Homo, facra res homOy jam per lufum ^ jocum occiditur.
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