PANACARPUS, in Roman antiquity, a kind of shew which the Roman emperors frequently exhibited to the people. In this spectacle, the Circus being all set over with large trees, represented a forest, into which the beasts being let from the dens underground, the people, at a sign given by the emperor, pursued, shot, and killed all they could lay hold of, which they afterwards carried away, to regale upon at home. The beasts usually given on these occasions were boars, deers, oxen, and sheep.