Gladiator Quotes

“Butcher’d to make a Roman holiday.”

“Ave! Imperator, morituri te salutant.”

“Gladiatorem in arena capere consilium.”

“Hail! Emperor, those who are about to die salute you!”

“The gladiator is making his plans after having entered the arena.”

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“Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem
Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.”

“Think then on this before the bugles play;
Once on the field, too late to shirk the fray.”

“Tecum prius ergo voluta
Hæc animo ante tubas. Galeatum sero duelli
Pœnitet.”

“The wounded gladiator forswears fighting, and yet forgetting his old wound he takes up arms again.”