naumachia

• These latter were unknown to a population who could build such temples, naumachia, and colonnades, and who were protected farther eastwards by the numerous cities with high roads, still discoverable in ruins beyond this--Belka and 'Ajloon. —  Byeways in Palestine
• It was written about B.C. 2, from the allusion, i. 171, to the 'naumachia' in that year, —  The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
• I wish you could see him making squibs of his papillotes, and bronzed over with a patina of gunpowder, and talking himself still hoarser on the superiority that his firework will have over the Roman naumachia. —  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
• Close to this theatre was a covered and sumptuous building, which I could not but suppose to be a naumachia, from its having rising rows of seats around the central space, with a channel leading into this from the river. —  Byeways in Palestine
• These latter were unknown to a population who could build such temples, naumachia, and colonnades, and who were protected farther eastwards by the numerous cities with high roads, still discoverable in ruins beyond this -- Belka and 'Ajloon. —  Byeways in Palestine

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