The word was in consequence applied to the public entertainments at which food was distributed, or money given in lieuĢ “ " Superstitionis novae et maleficae,"” are the words of Suetonius The partisans of the rival theatrical performers were banished, as well as the actors themselves.ġ The Sportulae were small wicker baskets, in which victuals or money
Licence to stroll about, and established for themselves a kind of prescriptive right to cheat and thieve, making a jest of it. He forbad the revels of the charioteers, who had long assumed a
He likewise inflicted punishments on the Christians, a sort of people who held a new and impious 2 superstition. Public suppers were limited to the Sportulae 1 and victualling-houses restrained from selling any dressed victuals, except pulse and herbs, whereas before they sold all kinds of meat. Many severe regulations and new orders were made in his time. He likewise designed to extend the city walls as far as Ostia, and bring the sea from thence by a canal into the old city. He devised a new style of building in the city, ordering piazzas to be erected before all houses both in the streets and detached, to give facilities from their terraces, in case of fire, for preventing it from spreading and these he built at his own expense.
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