ROMAN LIFE
HOW THE WORKERS FARED. 150 HOLIDAYS A YEAR. While dealing with life in Rome in the palmy days of the Great Empire, Mr Joseph McCabe said that the Roman workman had over 150 holidays a year, and on over a hundred of these he was provided with free entertainments. At the Colosseum, which accommodated 40,000 people, there were the barbarous gladiatorial games and bull-fights, and as much as £90,000 was spent on one day’s entertainment. There was also the Circus, which accommodated 400,000, where the chariot races were held. The only place where the Roman paid for admission was at tlie public baths, where he was charged one quarter of a farthing. There he could spend from eight to ten hours. Every Roman was within twenty minutes’ walk of the Forum, which was in the heart of tho city, which was very compact, most people living in six or seven-storied tenement houses.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11583, 28 July 1923, Page 5
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