Winged cupid as charioteer in a chariot pulled by large wild cats, perhaps a lion and a tiger in the Villa Romana, Desenzano, near Lake Garda, Italy. Images of wild animals were a common theme in Roman villas of the 4th and 5th century CE, reflecting the popular public entertainments of the ???udi circensis??(circus games). The supposed owner of Villa Romana, Flavius Magnus Decentius (brother of the Emperor Flavius Magnus Magnentius), could have attended the entertainments held nearby in the arena in Verona, about 40 km away along the Via Gallica.