Beneath the terraces, behind the barred doors that punctuated the marble wall which circled the arena, were mauritian panthers that had been entrapped with rotten meat; hippopotami from Sais, lured by the smell of carrots into pits; the rhinoceros of Gaul, taken with the net; lions, lassoed in the deserts; Lucanian bears, Spanish bulls; and, in remoter dens, men, unarmed, that waited.
"Imperial Purple"
Edgar Saltus