king of Cilicia, to
submit to be circumcised, become a Jew, and marry her. That union also
proving unfortunate, she appears to have returned to Jerusalem, and
having attracted Vespasian by magnificent gifts, and the 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 be would have married her, but
for the strong prejudices of the Romans against foreign alliances.
Suetonius tells us with what pain they separated.

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

[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.

[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 o