CAGES (caveæ), denote also places in the ancient amphitheatres, wherein wild beasts were kept, ready to
be let out for sport. The caveæ were a sort of iron cages different from dens, which were under ground and dark; whereas the caveæ being airy and light, the beasts rushed out of them with more alacrity and fierceness than if they had been pent under ground.