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  • The summa rudis is understood to have been an ex-gladiator acting as a referee during most, if not all, fights in the arena.

    Planet Sport: Diego Maradona looks to quell Neymar row 2011

  • A transformed ex-gladiator who now rules a horde of headless zombies!

    RPG Superstar 2009: Villain Round 2 « Geek Related 2009

  • The summa rudis is understood to have been an ex-gladiator acting as a referee during most, if not all, fights in the arena.

    Planet Sport: Diego Maradona looks to quell Neymar row 2011

  • He would have needed all his energy for Spartacus in 72 B.C. The ex-gladiator led the Romans on a chase for nearly all of Italys seven-hundred-mile length.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • He would have needed all his energy for Spartacus in 72 B.C. The ex-gladiator led the Romans on a chase for nearly all of Italys seven-hundred-mile length.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • He would have needed all his energy for Spartacus in 72 B.C. The ex-gladiator led the Romans on a chase for nearly all of Italys seven-hundred-mile length.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • He would have needed all his energy for Spartacus in 72 B.C. The ex-gladiator led the Romans on a chase for nearly all of Italys seven-hundred-mile length.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Of all the three lanistae, he had the most direct experience — a professional ex-gladiator who had survived to win his freedom.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • More than once she had forced the tough, lumpy-muscled ex-gladiator to the thumbs gesture asking for mercy, which she seldom granted.

    The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

  • Of Thessalian extraction, and gentle nurture, Nydia had been stolen and sold into the slavery of an ex-gladiator named Burbo, a relative of the false priest Calenus.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909

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