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| 15 | 97 | View more quotes about sometimes">Sometimes men wrestle to the death or use the spiked gauntlets. |
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| 15 | 94 | Another popular set of weapons, as in the ancient ludi of Rome, is net and trident. |
| 15 | 95 | Usually those most skilled with this set of weapons are from the shore and islands of distant, gleaming Thassa, the sea, where they doubtless originally developed among fishermen. |
| 15 | 96 | Sometimes men fight locked in iron hoods, unable to see their opponents. |
| 15 | 97 | Sometimes men wrestle to the death or use the spiked gauntlets. |
| 15 | 98 | Sometimes slave girls are forced to fight slave girls, perhaps with steel claws fastened on their fingers, or several girls, variously armed, will be forced to fight a single man, or a small number of men. |
| 15 | 99 | Surviving girls, of course, become the property of those whom they have fought; men who lose are, of course, slain. |
| 15 | 100 | Beasts are also popular in the Stadium of Blades, and fights between various animals, half starved and goaded into fury by hot irons and whips, are common; sometimes the beasts fight beasts of the same species, and other times not; sometimes the beasts fight men, variously armed, or armed slave girls; sometimes, for the sport of the crowd, slaves or criminals are fed to the beasts. |