The arena
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arena · the arena
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
The public combat venue where gladiators fight and animals such as lions are displayed, used twice as an illustrative setting.
A lion is sent into the arena differently with gilded mane, while it is handled and, worn out, is forced into endurance of receiving the ornament, differently when wild and of unbroken spirit;
From those who hire out their hands to the arena, and who eat and drink what they must pay back through their blood, security is taken that they will endure such things even against their will;
Ad Nationes
The public spectacle venue imagined as the site of punishment for the rumored crimes.
With how much zeal would men crowd into the arena when some man was about to fight to the death who had devoured a hundred infants!