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Definition of Gladiators

1. gladiator [n] - See also: gladiator

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gladiators

Literary usage of Gladiators

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"The first pair of gladiators on the left hand represents an equestrian combat. ... Like all the other gladiators represented on the frieze, they wear the ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"In these games of Honorius, the inhuman combats of gladiators" polluted for the last time the amphitheatre of Rome. The first Christian emperor may claim ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"During the later days of the republic the gladiators were a constant element of danger to the public peace. The more turbulent spirits among the nobility ..."

4. Roman Antiquities: Or, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam, John Richardson Major (1835)
"Horace calls intermissions given to gladiators in the time of fighting, ... Augustus forbade magistrates to give shows of gladiators above twice in one year ..."

5. Roman Antiquities: Or, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam (1830)
"gladiators were first publicly exhibited (dati sun/) at Rome by two brothers ... gladiators were kept and maintained in schools (in Indis) by persons called ..."

6. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"Clodius and Milo employed gladiators as a political force in their struggle; ... The public combat between gladiators began with weapons of wood, ..."

7. Roman Antiquities: Or an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans ...by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte by Alexander Adam, James Boyd, Lorenzo L. Da Ponte (1837)
"They seem to have taken their rise from the custom of slaughtering captives at the tombs of those slain in battle to appease their manes.4 gladiators were ..."

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