What is "gladiatorial"

Usage examples of "gladiatorial".

His intimates were gladiatorial stars like Mustela and Tiro, freedmen like Formio and Gnatho, actress-whores like Cytheris, actors like Hippias, mimes like Sergius, and gamblers like Licinius Denticulus.

She wanted to go to a private showing at a gladiatorial ludus and she needed Claudius to accompany her.

Heraclius asked if Menandros cared to attend the gladiatorial games the following week, said a sketchy thing or two about his Etruscan ancestors and their religious beliefs, of which he claimed to be a student of sorts, and spoke briefly of some idiotic Greek play that had been presented at the Odeum of Agrippa Ligurinus the week before.

He was prevented, however, from doing this, and an act was passed prohibiting any senator from taking part in gladiatorial combats, any slave from serving as lictor, and any burning of dead bodies from being carried on within fifteen stadia of the city.

The conversation turned gladiatorial, each male present trying to outspeak all others for the right to explain things to Miriam.

The remains of the vessels they plundered were never found, the able-bodied among the crew and passengers sold as slaves in a variety of ports around the world, most especially in the diamond fields of lower Heraat in the Great Overward, and the gladiatorial arenas of Sorbold.

His intimates were gladiatorial stars like Mustela and Tiro, freedmen like Formio and Gnatho, actress-whores like Cytheris, actors like Hippias, mimes like Sergius, and gamblers like Licinius Denticulus.

And, probably for the first time in the history of gladiatorial contests, the sand of the arena was spotless, while the great bowl of Parian white marble was running with red.

The gladiatorial violence of the Ro man coliseums, say, or the human sacrifices of the ancient Aztecs.

The gladiatorial violence of the Roman coliseums, say, or the human sacrifices of the ancient Aztecs.

A man who wanted to become a consul had to put on a gladiatorial show costing thousands of pounds.

Even our courts of law are in essence gladiatorial, with the aggrieved taking arms against the aggriever, figuratively.

Who paid the roadsweeper for his buckled back, the gladiatorial dustmen with their poles and shields, the policeman and his lucrative swagger?

Chariot races, horse races, and bestiaries are scheduled for the mornings, gladiatorial combats for the afternoons.

Indeed, they see that suffering as a spectacle, a gladiatorial slaughter to entertain them and while away the years.