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The initiatory contest between Lydon and Tetraides being less deadly than that between the other combatants, no sooner had they advanced to the middle of the arena than, as by common consent, the rest held back, to see how that contest should be decided, and wait till fiercer weapons might replace the cestus, ere they themselves commenced hostilities.
'Well, nine sestertia to three be it so! What! again, Lydon? He stops he gasps for breath. By the gods, he is down. No he is again on his legs. Brave Lydon! Tetraides is encouraged he laughs loud he rushes on him. 'Fool success blinds him he should be cautious. Lydon's eye is like the lynx's, said Clodius, between his teeth. 'Ha, Clodius! saw you that? Your man totters!
Tetraides, though no taller than Lydon, weighed considerably more; the natural size of his muscles was increased, to the eyes of the vulgar, by masses of solid flesh; for, as it was a notion that the contest of the cestus fared easiest with him who was plumpest, Tetraides had encouraged to the utmost his hereditary predisposition to the portly.
Another blow he falls he falls! 'Earth revives him, then. He is once more up; but the blood rolls down his face. 'By the thunderer! Lydon wins it. See how he presses on him! That blow on the temple would have crushed an ox! it has crushed Tetraides. He falls again he cannot move habet! habet! 'Habet! repeated Pansa. 'Take them out and give them the armor and swords.
The initiatory contest between Lydon and Tetraides being less deadly than that between the other combatants, no sooner had they advanced to the middle of the arena than as by common consent the rest held back, to see how that contest should be decided, and wait till fiercer weapons might replace the cestus ere they themselves commenced hostilities.
"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.
'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.
'I who have escaped your arms, stout Stratonice, said Lydon, 'might safely, I think, encounter the lion. 'But tell me, said Tetraides, 'where is that pretty young slave of yours the blind girl, with bright eyes? I have not seen her a long time. 'Oh! she is too delicate for you, my son of Neptune, said the hostess, 'and too nice even for us, I think.
There were now on the arena six combatants: Niger and his net, matched against Sporus with his shield and his short broad-sword; Lydon and Tetraides, naked save by a cincture round the waist, each armed only with a heavy Greek cestus; and two gladiators from Rome, clad in complete steel, and evenly matched with immense bucklers and pointed swords.
There were now on the arena six combatants: Niger and his net, matched against Sporus with his shield and his short broad-sword; Lydon and Tetraides, naked save by a cincture round the waist, each armed only with a heavy Greek cestus; and two gladiators from Rome, clad in complete steel, and evenly matched with immense bucklers and pointed swords.
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