Meanings
nouncolossæum (plural colossæums)
plural colossæums
- archaicArchaic spelling of colosseum.
The colossæum was built by Vespasian, who employed thirty thousand Jewish slaves in the work; but finished and dedicated by his son Titus, who, on the first day of its being opened, produced fifty thousand wild beasts, which were all killed in the arena.
1765, Tobias George Smollett, The Works of Tobias Smollett, volume XI, Letter the Thirty‐Second, page 338
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