 Titus' reign began with months of disasters – including the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, a fire in Rome, and an outbreak of plague – he inaugurated the completion of the structure with lavish games that lasted for more than one hundred days, perhaps in an attempt to appease the Roman public and the gods.Little literary evidence survives of the activities of the gladiatorial training and fighting ("ludi").They appear to have followed the standard format of the Roman games