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Fresco depicting the battle at the amphitheater of Pompeii between Pompeians and Nucerians in 59 CE, which, according to Tacitus (Annals XIV.17), led to the Roman Senate’s banning gladiatorial games at Pompeii for ten years.  From the 

Casa della Rissa nell’Anfiteatro (I, 3, 23), Pompeii; now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.

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