Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 353
equal. One party hadbeen trained warriors, professional gladiators,and the other only common men, captivestaken in a recent raid of Pilates soldiers upona wild tribe beyond the Dead Sea. They were come, he would never permit such cruelty asthis! I ought not to be here ! I will not comeagain! It was… … <£Si^<»... THERE WERE CONTESTS BETWEEN SWORDSMEN. brave enough, but they were put there only tobe killed for the amusement of the great menand of the multitude. So were the poor victimswith whom the days exhibition closed, for theywere driven into the arena, half armed, to con-tend as best…
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