gladiatorial combats. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But, I say, if you have such a down on Lord's and what you call the gladiatorial business, why on earth do you go? ". From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
The press tends to tell these stories in stark terms as a kind of gladiatorial contest between Republicans and Democrats. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
The gladiatorial fights and other games were completed. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
(For the suppression of the gladiatorial games, see p. 339.). From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Among other buildings are a milk-shop and gladiatorial school. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The passion of the Romans for gladiatorial combats is well known. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
The pirates were on the sea what the gladiatorial army was on land. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
The gladiatorial fights and other games of the arena were completed. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
A grand gladiatorial tongue-threshing took place lately in a field near. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841] Reference
Titus here exhibited gladiatorial shows to celebrate the capture of Jerusalem. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Amphitheatre, provided games, mostly gladiatorial combats, that lasted one hundred days. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
"The Iliad and the Odyssey," he replied, "and the gladiatorial games given under Laenas.". From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio] Reference
It was inaugurated by 100 days 'gladiatorial combats, in which 5000 wild animals were killed. From Wordnik.com. [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference
Advertisements of the theatres and gladiatorial shows were exhibited on the walls of the atrium. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
The delight of the people in gladiatorial shows had at this time become almost an insane frenzy. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Thus Pliny commends a friend for giving a gladiatorial entertainment at the funeral of his wife. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Hence gladiatorial games were actually exhibited to the legions before they set out on their campaigns. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Being a Campanian, he knew all about gladiators; the gladiatorial schools were concentrated around Capua. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
The Coliseum was first of all built for gladiatorial shows, which were the favourite amusement of the Romans. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
And, indeed, there is something gladiatorial about the salesroom, where auctions are an adversarial form of shopping. From Wordnik.com. [Let the Bidding War Begin] Reference
We have historical evidence, also, that gladiatorial combats had an Etruscan origin, and were borrowed by the Romans. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
In the amphitheaters, where animal shows and gladiatorial combats were exhibited, we have a genuinely Roman invention. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The first gladiatorial spectacle at Rome was presented by two sons at the funeral of their father, in the year 264 B.C. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
The games of the Romans range from the innocent tossing of huckle-bones to the frightful scenes of the gladiatorial show. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Accordingly, both in the circus and at the gladiatorial games, I received a remarkable ovation without a single cat-call. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
In ancient times men sought glory and renown in gladiatorial combat, though the victor's laurel was wet with human blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Jericho Road] Reference
Upon this the captive chiefs stood in the gladiatorial fights which took place within the space surrounding the great teocalli. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
A crowd of spectators witness the scene, with all the composure with which a Roman populace would look upon a gladiatorial show. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
The gladiatorial shows, so popular in Rome, were forbidden here, though theatres, amphitheatres, and hippodromes kept their place. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
No public event attracts more attention in America than a gladiatorial fight to the finish between the champion and some aspirant. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
The same year that marks the last military triumph at Rome also signalizes the last gladiatorial combat in the Roman amphitheatre. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Usually, gladiatorial shows were given in the Forum, and the chase and combats of wild beasts exhibited in the Circus, where once, when. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Romanum, and the Via Sacra, from his own house to the Capitol, which was esteemed even more wonderful than his gladiatorial exhibition. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
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