Citations:arenæ

Noun: plural of arena

 * 1861, Alexander MacLeod Symington, Lectures on the Apostles of our Lord, Lecture IX., page #263:
 * Their sphere naturally was the synagogues,— the arenæ, as we have seen, of free and eager disputation among the doctors and their disciples,— the rallying ground instinctively chosen by Pharisaic zeal, but in the meantime no less the platform of those who followed Jesus, walking in His steps who had read Isaiah in the synagogue of Nazareth and expounded from his words the Gospel.
 * 1886, M. Le Capitaine C. S. D’arpentigny and Edward Heron‐Allen, The Science of the Hand, Ward, Lock, and Co.; § VI., page #313:
 * Nor was it an ordinary man, who, going back to the rustic cradle of the gods of the heathen mythology, and inspiring himself with memories of antiquity, placed this group upon a spot recalling the umbrageous arenæ of Olympus and the holy pastures of “ the verdant Elis, abounding in horses.”