The act of using reason to derive a conclusion from certain premises. In general, a distinction is made between reasoning from the general to the particular (called deductive reasoning) and reasoning from the particular to the general (called inductive reasoning). Both types of reasoning are of interest to such disciplines as philosophy and psychology.
dimensions, some of which were decorated with arabesque paintings, still
adjoining; for the Laocoon, which is mentioned by Pliny as standing in
as to the number.html">number.html">number.html">number of wild beasts collected for the spectacles to which the
have of such an exhibition.html">exhibition.html">exhibition, was A.U.C. 502, when one hundred.html">hundred and forty-
information, states that lions first appeared in any number, A.U.C. 652;
praetor, brought forward one hundred. In 696, besides lions, elephants,
At the dedication of Pompey's Theatre, there was the greatest exhibition
lions, which were killed in the course of five days, four.html">four hundred and ten
A.U.C. 701. The art of taming these beasts was carried to such
Caesar, in his third dictatorship, A.U.C. 708, showed a vast number of
tiger was exhibited for the first time at the dedication of the Theatre
exhibited four together. The exhibition of Titus, at the dedication of
largest ever made; Xiphilinus even adds to the number, and says, that
thousand were killed. In the reigns of succeeding emperors, a new
temporary forest, by planting large trees, in which wild animals.html">animals were
they pleased. In this instance, the game consisted principally of beasts
wild sheep (mouflions from Sardinia?), and other grazing animals, besides
emperor Gordian.
[790] "Diem perdidi." This memorable speech is recorded by several
known Epistles of Pliny the younger, vi. 16 and 20, giving an account of
And see hereafter, p. 475.
[792] The great fire at Rome happened in the second year of the reign of
buildings destroyed were the temples of Serapis and Isis, that of
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