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Updated: May 21, 2025
You should have encouraged flesh for that contest: you are far too thin for it avoid the cestus. 'I cannot, said Lydon. 'And why? 'I have said because he has challenged me. 'But he will not hold you to the precise weapon. 'My honour holds me! returned Lydon, proudly. 'I bet on Tetraides, two to one, at the cestus, said Clodius; shall it be, Lepidus? even betting, with swords.
Pollux! to think what good training may make a man; why, a beast could not be fiercer! 'A beast! O dullard! we beat the beasts hollow! cried Tetraides.
There were now on the arena six combatants: Niger and his net, matched against Sporus with his shield and his short broadsword; 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.
In proportion, too, as he wanted flesh, he was likely to possess activity; and a haughty smile on his resolute face which strongly contrasted the solid heaviness of his enemy's, gave assurance to those who beheld it, and united their hope to their pity: so that, despite the disparity of their seeming strength, the cry of the multitude was nearly as loud for Lydon as for Tetraides.
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