"Edileship" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... theatres at Rome were temporary buildings of wood. A magnificent wooden theatre, built by M. AEmilius Scaurus, in his edileship, B.C. 58, is described by Pliny. In 55 B.C., Cn. Pompey built the first stone theatre at Rome, near the Campus Martius. A temple of Venus Victrix, to whom he dedicated the whole building, was erected at the highest part ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy |
