I've read somewhere (forgot where ...) that some gladiators who lost the battle were left in the Arena. Roman soldiers picked them up, and sometimes executed them.
(i remember something of the article: it was something with a graveyard full of gladiators, they died because of a natural death, or they all received the same, critical blow: marks were found on the skelets. A possible explanation is the execution afterwards).


I heard of the fights of unarmed (or light armed) people against the trained gladiators too. I know of unarmed people fighting animals (like lions). Does anyone know if gladiators fought lions as well?



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