Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . 10 petebsnt. 11 repetebant, Suf^ 58. 12 punctim. 13 caesim. 14 cavere, propulsare,exire, effugere, exce-dere, eludere. 15 ictus adversos, etrectas ac simplices ma-nus. 10 manus vel petitionesaversas tectasque, Ouin. V. 13. 5». ix. (1. Vii«. \x. 439. Cic,Cot. i. t>. 17 latus tegere. 18 Ter. HeauL iv. Vat. 5, i,4. 46. Plin. xi. 37. Sen. Ir. ii. 4. 19 Mart. CicRose. Am. 6, 30. 20 lemnisci. 21 ib. 35. Festus, 22 Cic. Phil. xi. ult. 23 J4 rude
Roman antiquities: or, An account of the manners and customs of the Romans; . 10 petebsnt. 11 repetebant, Suf^ 58. 12 punctim. 13 caesim. 14 cavere, propulsare,exire, effugere, exce-dere, eludere. 15 ictus adversos, etrectas ac simplices ma-nus. 10 manus vel petitionesaversas tectasque, Ouin. V. 13. 5». ix. (1. Vii«. \x. 439. Cic,Cot. i. t>. 17 latus tegere. 18 Ter. HeauL iv. Vat. 5, i,4. 46. Plin. xi. 37. Sen. Ir. ii. 4. 19 Mart. CicRose. Am. 6, 30. 20 lemnisci. 21 ib. 35. Festus, 22 Cic. Phil. xi. ult. 23 J4 rude Jonati. ROMAN GAMES. 287 jiUDiARii, and fixed their arms in the temple of Hercules.* Butthey sometimes were afterwards induced by a great hire^ againto engage. Those who were dismissed on account of age orweakness, were said delusisse? When any gladiator was wounded, the people exclaimed,HABET, sc. vulnus, vel hoc hahet, he has got it. The gladiatorlowered* his arms as a sign of his being vanquished: but hisfate depended on the pleasure of the people, who, if they wished. him to be saved, pressed down their thumbs; ^ if to be slain,they turned up their thumbs, and ordered him to receive thesword/ which gladiators usually submitted to with amazingfortitude. Sometimes a gladiator was rescued by the entranceof the emperor,^ or by the will of the editor. The spectators expressed the same eagerness by betting ^ onthe different gladiators, as in the circus.* Till the year 693, the people used to remain all day at anexhibition of gladiators without intermission till it was finished;but then for the first time they were dismissed to take dinner,A^hich custom was afterwards observed at all the spectaclesexhibited by the emperors. Horace calls intermissions given togladiators in the time of fighting, or a delay of the combat,DiLUDiA, -orumP- Shows of gladiators*^ were prohibited by Constantine, butnot entirely suppressed till the time of Honorius.*^ J Hor. Ep. i. 1. iv, 8. 24
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