Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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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. |
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Another popular set of weapons, as in the ancient ludi of Rome, is net and trident.
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.
Sometimes men fight locked in iron hoods, unable to see their opponents.
Sometimes men wrestle to the death or use the spiked gauntlets.
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.
Surviving girls, of course, become the property of those whom they have fought; men who lose are, of course, slain.
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.
- (Assassin of Gor, Chapter )