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Updated: July 24, 2025
The audience saw him gaze that way. Brinnaria ignored him. Almo and all the world. The victor looked toward the Emperor. Aurelius held out his right hand, thumb out. The lanista removed Almo's helmet. If anyone had doubted his identity the doubt was dispelled among all near enough to make out his face. The victor put one foot on Almo's chest. Almo stretched his neck.
The truth was, the lanista Dumnorix was unwilling to do his part of the business until the festival at Anagnia brought him and his band through Præneste, and this festival had been postponed. Consequently, the projected murder had been postponed a few days also.
No! the conquest of the cestus was not sufficient he had not yet won the prize of victory his father was still a slave! 'Noble aedile! he replied, in a firm and deep tone, 'I shrink not from this combat. For the honour of Pompeii, I demand that one trained by its long-celebrated lanista shall do battle with this Roman. The people shouted louder than before.
As if to blast his last hope, Drusus hastily bowed away the salves and aves of the two clients, turned, and went into the villa. Agias groaned in agony. A very few moments would bring Dumnorix to the villa, and the young slave did not doubt that Gabinius was with the lanista to direct the attack.
With the exception of the retiarii all wore helmets, and their right arms were covered with armour, the left being protected by the shield. The gladiators saluted the emperor and people, and the procession then left the arena, the first two matched against each other again entering, each accompanied by his lanista.
None of the others besides Boduoc were, Scopus thought, ever likely to be a credit to him in the more serious contests in the ring, but all showed an aptitude for wrestling and boxing, and the lanista was well content with this, as the games in the arena frequently commenced with these comparatively harmless sports, and in many of the provincial cities wrestlers and boxers were in great request.
Beneath thy own roof, my father, thou shalt puzzle this dull brain all day long, ay, and all night too, if it give thee pleasure. Ah! we shall be so happy the prize can purchase all. Cheer thee! cheer up, my sire! And now I must away day wears the lanista waits me. Come! thy blessing!
And into the atrium, sword in hand, burst Caius Curio, and another young, handsome, aquiline-featured man, dressed in a low-girt tunic, with a loose, coarse mantle above it, a man known to history as Marcus Antonius, or "Marc Antony "; and at their backs were twenty men in full armour. The courage of the lanista had failed him.
So, after promising to come again with final word and some bags of earnest-money, Pratinas parted with the lanista, and he and Lucius Ahenobarbus found themselves again in the now entirely darkened Campus Martius. Lucius again feared brigands, but they fell in with no unpleasant nocturnal wayfarers, and reached the city without incident.
'Yes, replied the young artificer, a curly-headed, handsome youth. 'Yes, replied he, enviously; 'the women love a gladiator. If I had been a slave, I would have soon found my schoolmaster in the lanista! 'Would you, indeed? said Sosia, with a sneer. 'People's notions differ!
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