Browne, Edward: A Brief Account Of Some Travels In divers Parts of Europe, Viz. [Sp.1:] Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, [Sp.2:] Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli: Through a great part of Germany, And The Low-Countries ... ; With some Observations on the Gold, Silver ... in those Parts ; As also, The Description of many Antiquities, Habits, Fortifications and Remarkable Places (London: Tooke, 1685)

A Journey from VcwApto Genoa.

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But these Sports were pursued with much more eagerness in the
time of the old who brought slrange Beads from al! Parts of
the known World to sight besore them, in these publick places; in com
sideration whereof, upon the successful Achievements of Sy Ila in Asri-
ca, the People os Rome were not so much pleated with his making tneir
inveterate Enemy King hisPrisoner , as they were infinitely,
delighted with the thoughts of the great familiarity, that Syl/a had
with Bocchus, King of Cretulia, whereby they hoped, that he might
obtain mod drange unheard of African Monders of Beads, to be
shewn in their Amphitheaters ; and Pompey the Great mod wonderfully
gratified the inclinations of his fellow Citizens, when he fird brought
a great Rhinoceros to Rome • After him Auguflus Cccfar brought another,
and following Emperors the like. This Bead,as it is reported;performed
drange things there; and when irritated, would with his great drong
Horn, presently throw up all other combatant Beads to the Skies, and
a Bull could not toss up a Ball higher than he would toss up Bulls and
Bears together.

ifamqp, gravem gemino cornu fic ext ulit Vrfatn,
Jaclat ut impofitas Taurus in ajlra pilas.

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And again ;

0 quam terrililes exarfit promts in iras !
Quant us er at Cornu, cui pita Taurus er at I

The Fights between Men and Beads were more unequal for the mod
part performed by Slaves, Captives, and Condemned Persons , yet
some of good quality have also polluted themselves with these Brutilh
Sports, and acquired the true title os Befliarij. That which happened
to a T^cz^^,upon this occasion is well known now, but was
sur prizing at fird, who danding ready in the Arena, and having a
Lyon let out upon him, received no hurt; for the Lyon came gently
to him, caressed and fawned upon him, and he likewise droak?d, and
made much of thp Lyon ; and after the loud diouts of the People, be-
ing asked how this came to pass, he let them know, That being with
his Mader in Africayto get rid os his hard service,he had ssed into a Cave,
whither this Lyon came with a Splinter in his Foot, and held up his
wounded Paw to him to cure; which having performed and free’d his
Foot from the splinter and healed it, the Lyon kept him and provided
meat for him three years, and when he came away the Lyon followed
him so far, that he was also taken and brought to Rome, and that by the
further cruelty os his old Mader he was now condemned to the Beads,
where they found him ; whereupon his liberty was granted him, and
the Lyon given him for his pains, with which he afterwards got his li-
ving, every one being desirous to see the Lyon that was the mans Hod,,
and the man that w^s the Lyons Surgeon.
The Fights between Men and Men, were of divers kinds, for they
sometimes fought on Horse-back,as the Andabataz, sometimes in Cha-
riots, as the Effedarij, and sometimes in Ships and Vessels, and this ei-
ther in the Amphitheaters, (the Arena being filled with water ) or
in a Building made on purpose, called a Naumachia ; or in artisicial

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Ponds,.