O Jew, thou hast brought to Tiberias the gladiators of Caius of Thessalonica!
I have care for my gladiators after a fight that they may be ready again.
The procurator," he said, "calleth the gladiators of Caius his own.
Nevertheless, there were devout Jews who lifted hands to curse them in the name of Jehovah, as heathen gladiators whose presence was a pollution of the city of God.
If I am heard from next at the house of Cornelius at Cæsarea, no man will accuse me of having too much acquaintance with the doings of the gladiators of Caius.
The officer also brought orders from Caius that the gladiators should move on toward Galilee.
I have to tell thee, however, that thy gladiators may not abide within the walls.
I know ye, who ye are--the gladiators of Caius from Jerusalem for the games at Tiberias.
So Ben Ezra departed from Tiberias, taking with him Abbas, and the palace of the friend of Caius by the Sea of Galilee contained now only the servants of its owner and these who were called the gladiators of Caius of Thessalonica.
The choked old fountain, where erst the gladiators washed, might have leaped into life again to honour the ceremony.
Two gladiators happening to kill each other, he immediately ordered some little knives to be made of their swords for his own use.
But bull-terriers are the gladiators of the canine race.
Hunting and fighting dogs are the gladiators of the animal world.
Caesar) received praise, but because he had also conducted both the Roman and the Megalesian games on the most expensive scale and had further arranged contests of gladiators in the most magnificent manner.
But do you not think that the battle between the gladiators and the Libyans will have done that sufficiently beforehand?
A shout of triumph greeted thegladiators as they climbed over the battlement, and gained a footing on the stage.
He then explored the dens and caves for the wild beasts, and the rocky chambers in which the gladiators and martyr victims awaited the signal that called them to their doom.
Then with another peal of trumpets a procession of gladiators in burnished armour entered the arena and marched around its vast circuit.
Even children imitated the cruel sport in their games, schools of gladiators were trained for the work of slaughter, women fought in the arena or lay dead and trampled in the sand.
A Christian monk, roused to indignation by the hateful scene, leaped over the barrier to separate the gladiators in the very frenzy of the conflict.
Assisted by their wives the two gladiators had struggled to their feet, but the most cursory inspection disclosed that they were more presentable when on the ground.
There was such a school at Capua, and among the gladiators was a Thracian of the name of Spartacus, originally a chief of banditti, who had been taken prisoner by the Romans, and was now destined to be butchered for their amusement.
He opposed force to force, and at the head of a band of gladiators attacked the hired ruffians of Clodius.
The gladiators were generally prisoners taken in war, and sold to persons who trained them in schools for the Roman games.
From the bath they passed to the Circus, where, although the combats of gladiators had been suppressed by Christian princes, a succession of amusements was still provided.
They accordingly made laws limiting and restricting the number of the gladiatorsto be employed.
He brought gladiators from distant provinces, and trained them at great expense, to fight in the enormous amphitheaters of the city, in the midst of vast assemblies of men.
He placed his trophies of victory in the temples, and entertained the populace with games and shows, and with combats of gladiators or of wild beasts, which he had brought home with him for this purpose in the train of his army.
He prohibited combats of gladiators where no quarter was given.
Footnote 65: Gladiators were first publicly exhibited at Rome by two brothers called Bruti, at the funeral of their father, A.
He deprived the gladiators called Mirmillones of some of their arms.
For he had collected from all parts so great a company of them, that his enemies became alarmed; and a decree was made, restricting the number of gladiators which any one was allowed to retain at Rome.
Footnote 435: Gladiators were distinguished by their armour and manner of fighting.
At the triumph of Trajan over the Dacians, ten thousandgladiators were exhibited, and the emperor himself presides under a gilded canopy, surrounded by thousands of his lords.
The number of the gladiators who fought surpasses belief.
But it is the conflict of gladiatorswhich most deeply stimulates the passions of the people.
The same old man appeared, dressed as Charon, who had called the gladiators to death, and, passing with slow step across the arena amid silence, he struck three times again on the door.
The spectacle was to begin with a battle among the Christians, who to this end were arrayed as gladiators and furnished with all kinds of weapons which served gladiators by profession in offensive and defensive struggles.
Behind the gladiators came mastigophori; that is, men armed with scourges, whose office it was to lash and urge forward combatants.
The shameful torments of maidens violated before death bygladiators dressed as wild beasts, delighted the hearts of the rabble.
I have known sons of knights and senators to become gladiators of their own will.
It was said also that Cæsar had gone mad, that he would command pretorians and gladiators to fall upon the people and make a general slaughter.
Once in Buxentum, whither Lucius Saturnius took me to a play, seven drunken gladiators fell on me at an inn, and none of them escaped with sound ribs.
Finally, at command of Cæsar, real gladiators were let out, who despatched in one twinkle the kneeling and defenceless victims.
In Rome there was no lack of gladiators larger by far than the common measure of man, but Roman eyes had never seen the like of Ursus.
Here and there crowds of slaves of every nationality and gladiators fell to robbing houses and villas in the town, and to fighting with the soldiers who appeared in defence of the citizens.
That is, you will have to quit the well-cushioned benches, where the spectators sit enjoying the spectacle, and take your place among the gladiators in the arena.
The gladiators were mostly slaves, and were the property of the individuals who trained them and leased them for the games.
Roman gladiator who led an insurrection of gladiatorsand slaves, 73 B.
It is a significant fact, that this method considerably increased the military culture of the individual soldier, and was essentially based upon the training of the future gladiators which was usual in the fighting- schools of the time.
In this large open court the gladiators had their training and practice.
Here twenty thousand people could come and watch the gladiators fight in pairs till one was killed.
Sometimes the gladiators were prisoners captured in war, like the famous Spartacus; sometimes they were slaves; sometimes criminals condemned to death.
Pompeii had two theaters for plays and music, besides the amphitheater where the gladiators fought.
To ransom captives and enrich the meaner folk is a nobler form of generosity than providing wild beasts or shows of gladiators to amuse the mob".
Milo, now one of the candidates for the consulship, a man of determined and unscrupulous character, had turned his own weapons against him, and maintained an opposition patrol of hired gladiators and wild-beast fighters.
You have the Senate, you have your tool, Pompeius, you have the gangs of gladiators and street ruffians and all the machinery of your political clubs to invoke to defy the law!
He says some gladiators are going to attack the house, and will be here in a moment!
Curio and Antonius had chased them down with their horsemen; many of the gladiators had been slain, many more taken.
Finally, as next of kin, he had to apply the torch to the funeral pyre, and preside over the funeral feast, held by custom nine days after the actual burning, and over the contests of gladiators which took place at this festivity.
The demoralized and beatengladiators followed him, like a flock of sheep.
Already Drusus's reinforcements in the peristylium had become so numerous and so well armed that the young chieftain was pushing back the gladiators and rapidly assuming the offensive.
I'll find out at once how many gladiators he took with him to Anagnia.
Then he proceeded to arrange with Dumnorix how the latter should wait until it was known Drusus had gone back to Præneste, and was likely to stay there for some time; as to how many gladiators the lanista was to have ready.
Pratinas had said that Dumnorix would shortly start with a band of gladiators for some local festival at Anagnia, a little beyond Præneste; and on the way back, if nothing went amiss, the prearranged programme could be carried out.
In impotent rage the gladiators recoiled a second time.
He has trained up bands of gladiators whom his friends, both senators and knights, are drilling for him.
A part of the gladiators started to leave the atrium, Gabinius with them.
Gaius Caesar to call forth the civic multitude, whose eyes he had just feasted on his three hundred and twenty pairs of gladiators with their silver equipments?
The gladiatorsthrust aside the meddler, and rushed to the attack.
Arena means sand in Latin, and as the place where the contests took place was covered with sand to keep the gladiators from slipping in the blood, so it received this name.
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