Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2)

part in these encounters; and Juvenal acquaints us, that the very women

were ambitious of showing their courage on the like occasions, though with the forfeiture of their modesty.

One of the best accounts of this wonderful edifice, is that given in Burford’s account of the Panorama painted by himself, and now (1839,) exhibiting in Leicester Square, London. “The far-famed amphi...