I have given, how many more must have been destroyed.  Titus, accordingly, sent two exconsuls to the Campanians to supervise the founding of settlements and bestowed upon the inhabitants money that came (besides various other sources) from those citizens that had died without heirs.  As for himself, he took nothing from individual or city or king, although many kept offering and promising him large sums.  In spite of this, he restored everything from funds already at hand. [Sidenote:—­25—­] Most of his deeds had no unusual quality to mark them, but in dedicating the hunting-theatre and the baths that bear his name he produced many remarkable spectacles.  Cranes fought with one another, and four elephants, as well as other grazing animals and wild beasts, to the number of nine thousand, were slaughtered, and women (not of any prominence, however,) took part in despatching them.  Of men several fought in single combat and several groups contended together in infantry and naval battles.  For Titus filled the above mentioned theatre suddenly with water and introduced horses and bulls and some other tractable creatures that had been taught to behave in the liquid element precisely as upon land.  He introduced also human beings on boats.  These persons had a sea-fight there, impersonating two parties, Corcyreans and Corinthians:  others gave the same performance outside in the grove of Gaius and Lucius, a spot which Augustus had formerly excavated for this very purpose.  There, on the first day, a gladiatorial combat and slaughter of beasts took place; this was done by building a structure of planks over the lake that faced the images and placing benches round about it.  On the second day there was a horse-race, and on the third a naval battle involving three thousand men.  Afterwards there was also an infantry battle.  The Athenians conquered the Syracusans (these were the names that were used in the naval battle), made a landing on the islet, and having assaulted a wall constructed around the monument took it.  These were the sights offered to spectators, and they lasted for a hundred days.

Titus also contributed some things that were of practical use to the people.  He would throw down into the theatre from aloft little wooden balls that had a mark, one signifying something to eat, another clothing, another a silver vessel, or perhaps a gold one, or again horses, pack-animals, cattle, slaves.  Those who snatched them had to carry them back to the dispensers of the bounty to secure the article of which the name was inscribed.

[Sidenote:  A.D. 81 (a.u. 834)] [Sidenote:—­26—­] When he had finished this exhibition, he wept so bitterly on the last day that all the people saw him, and after this time he performed no other great deed; but the following year, in the consulship of Flavius [Footnote:  L. Flavius Silva Nonius Bassus.] and Pollio, [Footnote:  Asinius Pollio Verrucosus.] subsequent to the dedication of the buildings mentioned, he passed away at the