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Identifier: lifeofgreeksroma00guhl (find matches)
Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
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to each room,the number of the inmates must have been 132. CaptiveGermans, Dacians, Gauls, Ethiopians, &c, as also slaves andcriminals condemned to death, were received as members of thefamilia gladiatorum; even free-born Romans, after having wastedtheir property, frequently sold themselves to the hnistce, receivingsums of money (auctoramentum gladiatorum) as the price of their 556 GLADIA TORS. infamy (auctorati). Guided by the fencing-master (doctores ormagistri), and fed on a peculiar diet (sagina, chosen with a view tostrengthen the muscles), the apprenticed gladiator (tiro) practisedthe technical manipulations of his art at first with light wooden,and afterwards with exceedingly heavy, weapons against a post ora straw puppet. After having got successfully through his publicdebut, he received an oblong tablet of ivory (tessera gladiatoria) asa reward, and sign of his proficiency, on which were written hisname, that of his master, and the day of his first fight and a d h e c / \
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f h g Fig. 500. victory. The tiro was thus admitted to the rank of the spectati(distinguished persons) : a certain number of these decorationsmost likely entitled the gladiator to be received amongst theveterani. About sixty genuine tesserae marked SP, in rare casesSPECT or SPECTAT (spectatus), have been discovered (compareFr. Eitschl, Die Tesserae gladiatorise der Romer. Miinchen,1864). A number of weapons of gladiators have been found; bymeans of these, and of numerous specimens seen in pictures and GLADIATORS WEAPONS. 557 plastic representations, we are enabled to give an accurate accountof their form, which essentially differs from that of the weaponsused by legionaries. Several gladiatorial helmets are kept in theMuseo Borbonico : the one shown Fig. 500, c, has a massive crestadorned with sculptures; a broad brim serves to protect neck andforehead. The visor consists of four plates, the two lower onesbeing massive, the two upper ones pierced with holes like a sievefor the gladiat

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