colossal size, in a downcast mood seated on his lion's hide.[1] There are also several pyramids in various positions along the Spine as well as numerous figures of famous charioteers interspersed among the other ornaments.[2] To these are to be added the necessary furniture of the Spine of a Roman Circus, viz., the narrow stages raised on a pair of pillars at each end, the one supporting seven ovoid bodies, by the removal or replacing of which the spectators at both extremities are enabled to see how many laps of the course have been travelled over by the chariots; the other, seven dolphins,[3] ornamental waterspouts through which water is pumped into the Phial beneath.[4] At each end of the Euripus are the usual triple cones,[5] figured with various devices, the "goals" designed to make the turning-points of the arena conspicuous. Over the Manganon, on each side external to the Kathisma, are a pair of gilded horses removed by Theodosius II from the Isle of
- [Footnote: its true place on the engineering sculptures of the Theodosian column
(see above).]Iliad, iii. </poem>
The dolphins probably referred to Neptune, to whom the horse was sacred.]
- ↑ Nicetas Chon., De Alexio, iii, 4; De Signis; Codin., p. 39. First at Tarentum; Plutarch, in Fabius Max., etc. To the knee it measured the height of an ordinary man.
- ↑ Nicetas Chon., De Signis; also celebrated by Christodorus, Anthology, loc. cit.
- ↑ The eggs in honour of Castor and Pollux; Tertullian, De Spectaculis, 8: <poem> [Greek: Kastora th' hippodamon kai pyx agathon Polydeukea.
- ↑ See Lyons and Barcelona mosaics as referred to above.
- ↑ See the coins, etc., in Panvinius, which show that these cones with their stands were about fifteen to twenty feet high Sometimes they rested on the ends of the Spina, at others on separate foundations three or four feet off it.
