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POMPEIANA. 239
upper part of the cavea. Julius Caesar
had before extended to children and
grand-children the privileges of then-
fathers.
Three great divisions are distinguish-
able in the theatre at Pompeii. In the
lowest near the orchestra, the seats or steps
of greater width, mark the place whence
the civil magistrates, the college of priests,
and those distinguished by the offices they
held, or the honours they had received,
saw the performances, placed in their
curule chairs, and bisellii, or privileged
seats. The middle seats, less ample in
their dimensions, had cushions; while the
gallery above, considered effeminate, was
covered over.
Venimus ad aedes^ ubi pulla sordida veste
Inter femineas spectabat turba cathedras:
Nam qufficunque pateat sub aperto libera ccelo,
Ant equeSj aut nivei loca densavere tribuni'.
1 Titus Calphurnius, Eclog. 7. But this was the t
of Diocletianus.
upper part of the cavea. Julius Caesar
had before extended to children and
grand-children the privileges of then-
fathers.
Three great divisions are distinguish-
able in the theatre at Pompeii. In the
lowest near the orchestra, the seats or steps
of greater width, mark the place whence
the civil magistrates, the college of priests,
and those distinguished by the offices they
held, or the honours they had received,
saw the performances, placed in their
curule chairs, and bisellii, or privileged
seats. The middle seats, less ample in
their dimensions, had cushions; while the
gallery above, considered effeminate, was
covered over.
Venimus ad aedes^ ubi pulla sordida veste
Inter femineas spectabat turba cathedras:
Nam qufficunque pateat sub aperto libera ccelo,
Ant equeSj aut nivei loca densavere tribuni'.
1 Titus Calphurnius, Eclog. 7. But this was the t
of Diocletianus.