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^{page 32 note 1} e.g. Virg. Ge. iii. 536; Ovid Tr. iii. 10. 59 and iii. 12. 30.

^{page 32 note 2} Amos ii. 13 (NEB translation).

^{page 33 note 1} Ovid Met. xi. 608.

^{page 33 note 2} Arist. Th. 487 ff.; Plaut. Curc. 158 ff.

^{page 33 note 3} Cato Agr. xcvii.

^{page 33 note 4} Pliny, NH xv. 34.

^{page 33 note 5} Strabo, xvi. 1. 15.

^{page 33 note 6} Pliny, NH xxviii. 141.

^{page 34 note 1} Pliny, NH xxviii. 136.

^{page 34 note 2} e.g. vi. 11; vi. 12. 2; vii. 5. 15.

^{page 34 note 3} Galen, Mixt. 333; in Kühn's edition, Vol. XII, p. 419.

^{page 34 note 4} Hor. Od. i. 1. 4; cf. ferventi rota in Ovid Ars Amat. iii. 396 and Pont. i. 8. 68.

^{page 35 note 1} For the Lyon mosaic, see Balsdon, J. P. V. D., Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome (London, 1969), plate 16. For the Bardo mosaic, see Harris, H. A., Sport in Greece and Rome (London, 1972), plate 78.

^{page 35 note 2} Plaut, . Poen. 1291.

^{page 35 note 3} CIL 10046 = Dessau 5313.

^{page 35 note 4} Daremberg–Saglio, Dictionnaire des antiquités, s.v. Cirque.

^{page 36 note 1} Ulpian in Digest iii. 2. 4.

^{page 36 note 2} See History of Technology (Oxford, 1954–1958), Vol. ii, 551.