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In a moment more, the deadly net was cast over him, he struggled against its meshes in vain; again again again he writhed mutely beneath the fresh strokes of the trident his blood flowed fast through the net and redly over the sand. He lowered his arms in acknowledgment of defeat. The conquering retiarius withdrew his net, and leaning on his spear, looked to the audience for their judgement.
In a moment more the deadly net was cast over him, he struggled against its meshes in vain; again again again he writhed mutely beneath the fresh strokes of the trident his blood flowed fast through the net and redly over the sand. He lowered his arms in acknowledgment of defeat. The conquering retiarius withdrew his net, and leaning on his spear, looked to the audience for their judgment.
He greeted her effusively, with a comical mixture of hobbledehoy clumsiness and imperial dignity. "I'm glad you demanded an audience," he said, as she sat down; "we should have had a good talk long ago. You lambasted old Bambilio. That is one for you. A juicier story I never heard. You are made of pepper. And you saved the retiarius, the year after I was born.
He chose the habit and arms of the secutor, whose combat with the retiarius formed one of the most lively scenes in the bloody sports of the Amphitheatre. The secutor was armed with a helmet, sword, and buckler; his naked antagonist had only a large net and a trident; with the one he endeavored to entangle, with the other to despatch his enemy.
"For that I care nothing whatever, Scopus; besides, you would get more credit from my winning in those games than from my being killed in the others. Strength and height count for much in them, while against an active retiarius strength goes for very little." "But you are active as well as strong, Beric, and so is Boduoc.
The old Romans knew how formidable, even in contest with a gladiator equipped with sword, helmet, and shield, was the almost naked retiarius, with his net in one hand and his three-pronged javelin in the other.
The spectators understood perfectly that that heavy body encased in bronze was preparing for a sudden throw to decide the battle. The retiarius meanwhile sprang up to him, then sprang away, making with his three-toothed fork motions so quick that the eye hardly followed them.
'That shows how innocent you are, my dear Fulvia; the retiarius has generally the best of it. 'But who is yon handsome gladiator, nearly naked is it not quite improper? By Venus! but his limbs are beautifully shaped! 'It is Lydon, a young untried man! he has the rashness to fight yon other gladiator similarly dressed, or rather undressed Tetraides.
Dreading the certain cast of the almost unescapable net, the secutor keeps always on the move, and continually alters the direction and speed and manner of his movement, taking one short step and two long, then three short and one long, breaking into a dogtrot, slowing to a snail's-pace, leaping, twisting, curving, zigzagging, ducking and in every way attempting to make it impossible for the retiarius to foretell from the movement he watches what the next movement will be.
'Yes, said the aedile's wife, with complacent importance, for she knew all the names and qualities of each combatant; 'he is a retiarius or netter; he is armed only, you see, with a three-pronged spear like a trident, and a net; he wears no armor, only the fillet and the tunic.
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