Gladiator in arena consilium capit=--The gladiator is taking advice when he is already in the lists.
The Lutheran gladiator of course was Petri, his opponent being one Peder Galle, a learned canon of Upsala.
A brilliant commoner without family connection or great fortune was an efficient gladiator to be employed in the service of these princes, but he was not allowed to rise beyond a fixed line.
Hippia, though wife to a senator, accompanied a gladiator to Pharos and the Nile, and the infamous walls of Lagos.
Rome's fiercest gladiator is to-day again A Thracian--and a man!
After this occurrence he raised our spirits, since before fighting again as a gladiator he bade us enter the theatre in the equestrian garb and with woolen cloaks.
So a slave debauched his mistress in the presence of his master and a gladiator ravished a girl of noble family while her father looked on.
It now stands in the room called the Hall of the Dying Gladiator at the Capitoline Museum.
The statue of Isis, now in the Hall of the Dying Gladiatorat the Capitoline Museum, the Egyptian lions on the steps of the Capitol, and the famous statue of the Nile now in the Braccio Nuovo of the Vatican, were also found here.
They could not have looked on while the brave gladiator was thus changed into a bloody hash; least of all could they have seen the work of slaughter done by machinery.
Hippia, though the wife of a Senator, accompanies a gladiator to Alexandria.
Rome had once been at the mercy of a buffoon who was deluded with the idea that he possessed a heavenly voice; she was now ravaged by a gladiator who believed himself to be a second Hercules.
By meanes of this medicine and copulation was the Emperour Commodus borne, who rather resembled the Gladiator than his Father: in whose breast rested a storehouse of mischyefe and vyce, as Herodian and other Wryters plentifully do wryte.
To conclud the Gladiator was slayne and the medicine made and applied to the Pacient, and the Emperour lay with the Empresse, and begat hir with childe.
I saw the gladiator Macer, a man to whom fear was utterly unknown, lay down his life calmly rather than do what he believed to be wrong.
It must be a wonderful religion which could make a common gladiator act thus," said Marcellus.
Again the wounded gladiator looked up despairingly for mercy, but received only the signal of death from the pitiless spectators.
He was now matched with a gladiator from Batavia, a man fully equal in stature and strength to himself.
They were indignant that a mere gladiator should dare to disappoint them.
Send a gladiator in against another gladiator and even though he may know that the other man can split a stick at twenty yards, he will do his best.
Marcia seized the gladiator by the shoulders, scanned his face, saw what she looked for and bargained for it instantly.
It is better that a gladiator did it," remarked Pertinax, attempting to look calm.
There was none, observing from below, who could have sworn it had not been the emperor himself who sat in the box and watched Paulus the gladiator showing off his skill.
Your common bull is not apt for these duels; he must be a bull of race, haughty and high-spirited, before he is welcomed as a gladiator moriturus.
Toro who shows good fight should get his respite, like the Roman gladiator who pleased the multitude.
Parthian gladiator who has just arrived a prisoner from the Camp of Verus.
The opening scene last night--the broadsword combat between two young amateurs and a famous Parthian gladiator who was sent here a prisoner--was very fine.
Gladiator obscene:-- The arena of his activities is, however, that of Venus and not Mars.
You shall have arms; and there will be no more than one gladiator to each Christian.
The gladiator with the helmet puts it on; and the two go into the arena, the net thrower taking out a little brush and arranging his hair as he goes, the other tightening his straps and shaking his shoulders loose.
Suppose at the last moment in the arena, with the gladiators there to fight him, one of them was to say anything to annoy him, he might forget himself and lay that gladiator out.
The Gladiator was once in the Villa Ludovisi, and was bought by Clement XII.
Barbara looked down into the face of the old gladiator whose eyes, as they looked up at her, were soft as a childs.
A joyful grin spread over the battered features of the gladiator as he grasped the Seer's outstretched hand.
