Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1910 — ANCIENT CIRCUS PLACARD [ARTICLE]

ANCIENT CIRCUS PLACARD

The British museum has acquired a curious relic of Roman civic life, this being a circus placard, found near the site of ancient Lanuvium. It Is a thin, oblong slab of stone, about three feet long, the upper corners of which are pierced with holes for cords tp pass through, so that It might be hung outside the theater and warn those who came late that there was no room for them within the building. The inscription Is in Latin, .“Circus full! Immense applause! Door shut!” We can Imagine the disappointment of the Roman boys, after trudging three or four miles to see the circus, to find this sign Btarlng them in the face.