Ovid certainly thought so. "There is another good ground, the gladiatorial shows," he wrote, continuing:
The watcher of wounds often has had it himself. While he is talking, or touching a hand, or studying entries, asking which one is ahead after his bet has been laid, wounded himself, he groans to feel the shaft of the arrow; he is a victim himself, no more spectator, but show.
...but because we are historians here, we have to consider the context of this particular quote:
There is no need for a code of finger-signals or nodding. Sit as close as you like; no one will stop you at all. In fact, you will have to sit close – that’s one of the rules, at a race track. Whether she likes it or not, contact is part of the game.
Any excuse will do: why do you think you have hands?
In other words: when men sexually assault women and women get mad, it's the men who are the real victims.
Ovid must be writing satire here, right?
In point of fact, though, the designers of Roman amphitheatres and other venues for games, and (usually) the people who ran the games did worry about spectator safety. Most basically, this could include awnings at the top of the amphitheatre (or other venue for spectacle, like the circus) to protect the crowd from the sun. Making sure the arena was well-constructed was another priority.
At least, it was if you were not how Tacitus presents Atilius of Fidenae in 27 CE:
He neither placed the foundations under the structure through to solid ground, nor did he build the wooden framework with strong joints...He undertook that work for sordid reward.
And the crowd paid the price:
At the same time, the building rushes inward or is poured out into the exterior parts. It drags headlong and buries an immense force of people, including both those having been attentive to the spectacle and those who were standing around the amphitheater.
Those men indeed, whom the beginning of the destruction had crushed to death, escaped torture, as if by a kind twist of fate. More pitiable were those whom life had not yet deserted with part of their body having been ripped from them
Much attention was also paid to protecting spectators from the animals brought in--a particular priority, since those sitting closest to the action were the highest-ranking. In addition to the high walls around the arena floor, there were often safety nets stretching even higher above them, to prevent the most agile of animals from leaping over them. But! Even in such an event, archers were standing by to kill the animals--apparently they were very good shots (and very, very trustworthy), since they were trusted not to kill the senators by accident...or on purpose.
In general, there were also soldiers stationed in the amphitheatre to prevent riots. Except apparently Nero liked riots.
And on the subject of bad emperors, or at least emperors that writers did not like: multiple sources repeat rumors that during the reign of Caligula, even just walking to your seat (or standing place if you were enslaved) could be hazardous to your health. Per Dio:
The same trait of cruelty led [Caligula] once, when there was a shortage of condemned criminals to be given to the wild beasts, to order that some of the mob standing near the benches should be seized and thrown to them; and to prevent the possibility of their making an outcry or uttering any reproaches, he first caused their tongues to be cut out.
Suetonius adds that Caligula's motive was the animals were hungry and he didn't want to pay to feed them.
...Fortunately, this is probably character assassination rather than actual assassination.
Probably.
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Most of the translated quotes are from Alison Futrell, The Roman Games, although she took some of them from elsewhere.
ETA: Apparently it is not clear that the first bit is from the Ars Amatoria, which means "The Art of Love." I am providing a more realistic explanation to "men touching women in unwanted ways" than "Cupid's arrows."
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