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About how many people did the Circus Maximus hold

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The Circus Maximus was arguably the largest structure in ancient Rome, with the capacity to seat 250,000 people according to Pliny (roughly a quarter of Rome's population at the time; some historians today think the number might have been a tad smaller than Pliny said, around 150,000 rather than 250,000
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The Circus Maximus was arguably the largest structure in ancient Rome, with the capacity to seat 250,000 people according to Pliny (roughly a quarter of Rome's population at the time; some historians today think the number might have been a tad smaller than Pliny said, around 150,000 rather than 250,000.

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