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Identifier: dictionaryofgree00smit_1 (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities..
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893
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Publisher: Boston
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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In the mosaic of Lyons the man is representedapparently in the act of letting go the rope(va-KXt)yl) in the manner described by Dionysius(I. c). The cut below, which is from a marble inthe British Museum, represents a set of four carceres,with their Hermae, and cancelli open, as left after * This mosaic has several peculiarities. Mostof the objects are double. There is a double setof ova and delphinae, one of each sort at each endof the spina — and eight chariots, that is a doubleset, for each colour, are inserted. CIRCUS. 285
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the chariots had started ; in which the gates aremade to open inwards. The preceding account and woodcuts will besufficient to explain the meaning of the variouswords by which the carceres were designated inpoetical language, namely, claustra (Stat. Theb. vi.399 ; Hor. Epist. i. 14. 9), crypta (Sidon. Carm.xxiii. 319), fauces (Cassiodor. Var. Epist. iii. 51),ostia (Auson. Epist. xviii. 11),fores careens (Ovid,Trist.Y. 9. 29), repagula (Ovid, Met ii. 155 ; Sil.Ital. xvi. 318), limina equorum (Id. xvi. 317). It will not fail to be observed that the line ofthe carceres is not at a right angle with the spina,but forms the segment of a circle, the centre ofwhich is a point on the right hand of the arena ; thereason for which is obviously that all the chariotsmight have, as nearly as possible, an equal dis-tance to pass over between the carceres and mouthof the course. Moreover, the two sides of thecircus are not parallel to each other, nor the spinato either of them ; but they are so plann

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