Citations:amphitheatre


 * 1806, Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting and Original Literature, and Records of the Beau-monde, page 343:
 * It is a semicircular amphitheatre, the numerous seats of which are formed out of the ground itself. This is indisputably the most convenient form for permitting every one to see and to be seen.
 * 1856, Hector Berlioz, A Treatise upon modern Instrumentation and Orchestration ... Translated from the French by Mary Cowden Clarke, page 254:
 * In a space arranged as a semicircular amphitheatre, the orchestral conductor, may alone conduct a considerable number of performers; all eyes them being able to look towards him.