The Coliseum is over one thousand six hundred feet long, seven hundred and fifty wide, and one hundred and sixty-five high.

Its shape is oval.
In America we make convicts useful at the same time that we punish them for their crimes.

We farm them out and compel them to earn money for the State by making barrels and building roads.

Thus we combine business with retribution, and all things are lovely.

But in ancient Rome they combined religious duty with pleasure.