Thus: "An ambassador of Rome visiting an outlying province attended a gladiatorial contest.
There were holidays and spectacles, chariot races and gladiatorial combats, and the people of Rome forgot that it had ever shouted: "Hail Taurus Antinor Cæsar!
The games in the great Circus went on without intermission for thirty days; there were military and naval pageants, combats between the lions from Numidia and the new hyenas and crocodiles; there were gladiatorial contests and chariot races.
He would denounce it as a gladiatorial show; as belonging to the worst period of the worst empire known to history.
It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence.
Directly on the opposite side of the arena from the toril, or bull-door, is the enclosure reserved for the autoridad, or one in authority presiding on the occasion, just as a Caesar did of old in the gladiatorial contests.
A peep within this gladiatorial arena, however, only revealed very mild-looking athletes, and spectators as grave as judges, looking much more as if they were at meeting than at a fair.
This species of gladiatorial contest took its origin at a remote period, and long before it assumed its present form exhibition combats of one bull against another were not uncommon.
IX-79] There seems to be some confusion with regard to whether or not there were gladiatorial sacrifices in each of the first two months.
IX-77] In further honor of the Tlalocs there were also at this time killed many captives on the gladiatorial stone.
This sham battle was succeeded by combats of a terribly real sort, the famous so-called gladiatorial fights of Mexico.
The people will be amused and forget the cruelties of the Emperor, for there will be a grand show in the amphitheatre, far grander than any gladiatorial show.
Gladiatorial contests would be the first thing on the program, followed by the lions and Christians.
To every class of Romans, the gladiatorial show was open.
One hundred thousand men and women sat on its tiers of white marble seats, under the open sky and witnessed a gladiatorial contest in the arena, beneath.
Her skin, fair and beautiful on that day when she sat so proudly by her husband and daughter in the Circus, watching the gladiatorial contest, was yellow and drawn.
When Christianity was introduced, gladiatorial shows were done away with, and their place taken, in Christian times, by the duel, which was a way of settling difficulties by the Judgment of God.
Hugo seems to be confusing it with the Colosseum, where the gladiatorial combats were fought.
The reference is to gladiatorialcombats in the Roman Circus, and the louve d'airain is the famous bronze wolf of the Capitol, a statue representing a wolf suckling two children.
A rostrum was erected in it, and such was the extent of the space enclosed that gladiatorial shows, and sometimes naumachiae were held there.
Others omit cum, in which case the meaning will be "at the gladiatorial shows of Gabinius.
For instance, when we were escorting a candidate, he asked me "whether I had been accustomed to secure Sicilians places at the gladiatorial shows?
Accordingly, both in the circus and at the gladiatorial games, I received a remarkable ovation without a single cat-call.
Horse and chariot races were held in the circus, gladiatorial fights and fights with animals and also sea fights in the amphitheater, scenic representations in the theater, and athletic and musical contests in the stadium.
These gladiatorialexhibitions proclaim the true nature of the Roman character.
In the amphitheater were held the gladiatorial fights.
The still more revolting gladiatorial games, which prevailed in Campania and Etruria, now gained admission to Rome; human blood was first shed for sport in the Roman forum in 490.
A shop near the Thermæ, or public warm baths, is adorned on its front with a representation of a gladiatorial combat.
Would yon like to have a hunt or a gladiatorial combat?
For what was the meaning of the shouts of the innumerable crowd of citizens collected at the gladiatorial games?
The gladiatorial shows, so popular in Rome, were forbidden here, though theatres, amphitheatres, and hippodromes kept their place.
Horace, in the fifth satire of his first book, has, in imitation of Lucilius, comically described a journey from Rome to Brundusium, and like him has introduced a gladiatorial combat.
Gladiatorial combats were first exhibited by Decius and Marcus Brutus, at the funeral of their father, about the commencement of the Punic wars.
And what wonder if they are unruly and society corrupt, when the public authorities actually countenance all the horrors of gladiatorial games?
I say to myself that it is a gladiatorial combat with an occasional punt thrown in by way of identification.
We have seen one gladiatorial combat, and our thirst for gore is sated.
What theatres are to the French, what bull-fights are to the Spaniards, what horse-races are to the English, these gladiatorial shows were to the ancient Romans.
Another essential but demoralizing feature of Roman society was to be found in the games and festivals and gladiatorial shows, which accustomed the people to unnatural excitement and familiarity with cruelty and suffering.
The practice of gladiatorial fights of all kinds came to an end A.
Before the Amphitheatre was built it was here that the gladiatorial fights were held.
The first gladiatorial fights witnessed in Verona are said to have been at the beginning of Trajan's reign.
I considered, besides, that I was not engaging myself to exhibit public games or gladiatorial combats, but to establish an annual fund for the support and education of young men of good families but scanty means.
But as gladiatorial shows grew more frequent and more magnificent, tragedy declined in popularity, though tragedies continued to be written, and even acted.
With the growth of prose literature, especially of oratory, on the one hand, and the increased splendor of the gladiatorial shows on the other, tragedy ceased to be a living branch of Roman literature.
They have got it into their heads," said he, "that the gladiatorial element is the curse of most modern sport.
The present craze for gladiatorial athleticism I regard as one of the great evils of the age; but the thinly veiled professionalism of the so-called amateur is the greatest evil of that craze.
A crowd of spectators witness the scene, with all the composure with which a Roman populace would look upon a gladiatorial show.
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