Category: Journals

The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 18, July 14, 1832

When the imperial power was firmly established at Rome, the sports of the amphitheatre were conducted upon a scale to which the Consuls of the republic had scarcely dared to aspire. Caligula, on his birth-day, gave four hundred bears, and as many other wild beasts to be slain;...