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OCR: Hf ter the mornings enter tainment, the midday period was more relaxed and ligh light-hearted, with comic turns and novelty items. But the spectacle was not always so harmless, as Seneca discovered on a visit to the Colloseum. By chance / attended the lunch-time entertainment af the games, expecting To see some amusing on witty turns, and some pleasent relief from the slaugh- -ter of the morning, But the opposite happened. In the morning fights, some compassion had been show, but now it was just murder pure and simple. The men had no armour they are exposed to every stroke, and not one failed to make contact. What is the need for armour, or fighting skill when these only delay the death blow? In the morning, prisoners are thrown to the lions and bears, but during the lunch break they are thrown to the spectators .... every fight. ends in death, and all this happens when most of the audience has left for their midday meal. Call extracts from Seneca's Ep. Mor ., 7, 3-5) All day the crowd cries : "Kill him, whip him, burn him. Lihy is he so squemish?" And in the interval "Let's have some throats cut, to keep it interesting"