Does it not behoove the senate to take good care that that fatal firebrand does not fall upon these vast materials for sedition? M. Tullius Cicero. On His House. Section 13.
Image: Detail of a fresco depicting a riot at the amphitheater in Pompeii in 59 CE described by Tacitus in his Annales, book XIV, chapter 17. Part of a gladiators exhibit at the Moesgaard Museum in Højbjerg, Denmark in 2016, courtesy of Torben Retboll.
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