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Moreover, the senator who gave the performances sent me a very handsome sum more than he had agreed to give me for Porus and Lupus together saying that, although he had not engaged you, your deeds in the arena had delighted the people beyond measure, and that as his show would be talked about for years, it was but fair he should pay your lanista a sum worthy of the performance. And now farewell!
"He's Frugi's pupil," Capito maintained, "and therefore the best lanista here." "I agree," said Commodus, and he called: "Who's the physician on duty?" When the official came forward he said truculently: "Get your plasters ready and your revivers. You'll have to attend a man flat on the pavement, insensible and with a bad scalp wound, before much time has passed."
One would attack Palus and when, after a longer or shorter contest, he was killed, the lanista, would, without any respite, allow a second to rush at Palus; then a third; and so on till everyone had perished by the secutor's unerring sword. No other secutor ever killed more than one retiarius without a good rest between the first fight and the second.
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