Circus Maximus
A shrine of Cybele in the Circus Maximus, mentioned in the Notitia (Reg. XI), and by Tertullian. The reliefs representing the circus and a mosaic at Barcelona, represent Cybele sitting on a lion on the spina of the circus, just east of its centre.
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Famous quotes containing the word circus:
“Winter and summer till old age began
My circus animals were all on show,
Those stilted boys, that burnished chariot,
Lion and woman and the Lord knows what.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)