place
Circus Maximus
the Circus
also: the Circus, Circi
Rome's great chariot-racing arena between the Palatine and Aventine; Trajan rebuilt and enlarged it, adding seats and (Pliny stresses) making the imperial place level with the people's.
Reading notes
- The Letters §9.6.1 Races
The chariot-races of the Circus Maximus, the great Roman public spectacle; Pliny professes complete indifference to them.
- Panegyric to Trajan §51 the Circus
The Circus Maximus, Rome's vast chariot-racing arena; Trajan rebuilt it, adding five thousand seats and leveling the imperial place with the people's so that he sat openly among them.