young Titus
by her extraordinary beauty, she followed them to Rome, after the
termination of the Jewish war, and had apartments in the palace, where she
lived with Titus, "to all appearance, as his wife," as Xiphilinus informs
us; and there seems no doubt that he would have married her, but for the
strong prejudices of the Romans against foreign alliances. Suetonius tells
us with what pain they separated.]

[Footnote 787: The Colosseum: it had been four years in building. See
VESPAS. c. ix.]

[Footnote 788: The Baths of Titus stood on the Esquiline Hill, on part of
the ground which had been the gardens of Mecaenas. Considerable remains
of them are still found among the vineyards; vaulted chambers of vast
dimensions, some of which were decorated with arabesque paintings, still
in good preservation. Titus appears to have erected a palace for himself
adjoining; for the Laocoon, which is mentioned by Pliny as standing in
this palace, was found in the neighbouring ruins.]

[Footnote 789: If the statements were not well attested, we might be
incredulous as to the number of wild beasts collected for the spectacles
to which the people of Rome were so passionately devoted. The earliest
account we have of such an exhibition, was A.U.C. 502, when one hundred
and forty-two elephants, taken in Sicily, were produced. Pliny, who gives
this information, states that lions first appeared in any number, A.U.C.
652; but these were probably not turned loose. In 661, Sylla, when he was
praetor, brought forward one hundred. In 696, besides lions, elephants,
and bears, one hundred and fifty panthers were shown for the first time.
At the dedication of Pompey's Theatre, there was the greatest exhibition
of beasts ever then known; including seventeen elephants, six hundred
lions, which were killed in the course of five days, four hundred and ten
panthers, etc. A rhinoceros also appeared for the first time. This was
A.U.C. 701. The art of taming these beasts was carried to such
perfection, that Mark Antony actually yoked them to his carriage. Julius
Caesar, in his third dictatorship, A.U.C. 708, showed a vast number of
wild beasts, among which were four hundred lions and a cameleopard. A
tiger was exhibited for the first time at the dedication of the Theatre of
Marcellus, A.U.C. 743. It was kept in a cage. Claudius afterwards
exhibited four together. The exhibition of Titus, at the dedication of
the Colosseum, here mentioned by