THE COLOSSEUM FROM PALATINE PI I LI, : ROME 



Could the walls of this great structure speak, what tales of anguish and of debauchery 

 they could give us. The Colosseum was dedicated in 80 A. D. with gladiatorial combats 

 lasting a hundred days, in which 5,000 wild animals were killed; history mercifully is silent 

 as to how many human beings gave their lives for this Roman holiday. For three and a 

 quarter centuries man and beast here were forced to die that a conscience-deadened people 

 might laugh. 



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