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Often appears with: sport, hunting, and recreation · gladiatorial games · crime and punishment · conquest, plunder, and captives · condemned malefactors · circus maximus chariot races
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“Pope Gregory XIII., therefore, again reformed the calendar, first bringing forward the year ten days, by reckoning the 5th of October the 15th.” Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius C · insight
The notes explain games and spectacles in Roman public life: gladiators, Circensian contests in the Circus Maximus, and harsh fighting formats where condemned malefactors fought to death unless spared by imperial clemency.
condemned malefactors, who fought to death, unless saved by the clemency of the emperor. If any thing unlucky happened at the games, they were renewed, and often more than once. [67] A meadow beyond the Tiber, in which an excavation was made, supplied with water from the river. [68] Julius Caesar was assisted by Sosigenes, an Egyptian philosopher, in correcting the calendar. For this purpose he introduced an add…