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But she did not desert her brothers in death; she made her way in secret to the bank of the river, watching to see whether the stream might bear down the corpses so dear to her. Driven along, so as to rest upon the bank, she found them at last, and, by the help of Lucina, she laid them in the grave in the cemetery called Ad Ursum Pileatum.
How far this is archæologically sound we must leave to those who are specially learned in amphitheatres to determine. But we cannot forget the dissatisfied audience in Horace who, between the acts, or even during the performance itself, called for "aut ursum aut pugiles."
Our Poets present you the Play and the Farce together; and our Stages still retain somewhat of the original civility of the 'Red Bull. "Atque ursum et pugiles media inter carmina poscunt. Would you not think that physician mad! who having prescribed a purge, should immediately order you to take restringents upon it? "But to leave our Plays, and return to theirs.
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