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And since he has been Emperor how many panthers and bears and lions and tigers and wild bulls and things has he imported for the huntsmen to kill in the amphitheatres and the Circus?"
"About twenty thousand, perhaps. Probably more."
"And how many other animals have been sacrificed in the temples?"
"I don't know. I should guess between one and two hundred thousand."
"Those flamingoes and desert antelopes and zebras and British beavers must have cost him something! So what with buying all those animals and paying the huntsmen in the amphitheatres, and then the gladiators, of course- gladiators get four times what they got under Augustus, I'm told-and all the State banquets and decorated cars and the theatre shows-they say that when he recalled the actors whom the old Emperor banished he paid them for all the years they were out of work-handsome, eh?-and my goodness the money he has spent on racehorses! Well, what with one thing
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