The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture for wild beasts to fight in.
Les anciens Romains élevaient des prodiges d'architecture pour faire combattre des bêtes.
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Letter addressed to "un premier commis" [name unknown] (20 June 1733), from Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance [Garnier frères, Paris, 1880], vol. I, letter 343 (p. 354)