Samuel Ball Platner: A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1929), haettu 29.3.2009"To avoid censure for building a permanent theatre, he constructed a temple of Venus Victrix at the top of the central part of the cavea, so that the rows of seats might appear to be the steps leading up to the temple, and dedicated the whole as a temple and not as a theatre."
Lacus Curtius: Plutarch, The Parallel Lives - Life of Pompey, haettu 29.3.2009"For instance, when he came to Mitylene, he gave the city its freedom, for the sake of Theophanes, and witnessed the traditional contest of the poets there, who now took as their sole theme his own exploits. And being pleased with the theatre, he had sketches and plans of it made for him, that he might build one like it in Rome, only larger and more splendid."