(219 b.C) Sulla gave a show of loose lions in the forum in 695 the Romans saw for the first time an hippopotamus and five crocodiles brought by Scaurus from the provinces of Lybia, and in 698 Pompey outdid all of them, at least for a while, having 500 lions killed. forbade the importation of the Africanae (beasts) to Italy. Livy also tells us that it was a Carthaginian use to expose fugitive slaves to the wild beasts apparently this foreign custom was warmly welcomed in Rome, and hunts were so popular that the Senate in 170 b.C. In that case they showed african elephants and ostrichs, booty of war. Fulvius Nobilior after the second Punic War against the Carthaginians. Livy, the great historian of Rome, dates the first hunts to the year 568 AUC (ab Urbe Condita, that means from the foundation of the city, i.e. Usually took place in the morning, as an introduction and complement to the gladiators’ combats, that started in the afternoon.
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