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Feb 14, 2019 · Freedom for the Gladiator. When a Roman gladiator won a battle, he received palm branches for the victory and the rudis as a gesture symbolic of his freedom. The Roman poet Martial wrote of a circumstance in which two gladiators named Verus and Priscus fought to a stalemate, and both received rudes and palms as a reward for their bravery and skill.
Antonius Proximo was a wealthy slave owner who owned Ex-Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius, Numidian tribesman Juba, the Barbarian from Germania, Hagen and Gladiators from across the world. He himself was a Gladiator who was freed by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He oversaw many Gladitorial Games where his slaves participated in, and ...
A Rudiarius (pl. rudiarii) was a gladiator who had been granted his freedom. His freedom could be obtained if a gladiator bravely distinguished himself in a particular fight or, at some periods during Roman history, had won five fights. The symbol of freedom given to a Rudiarius was a wooden sword called a rudis.
Proximo himself was a gladiator, Maximus notes. He asks him if he won his freedom. Proximo then tells how Marcus Aurelius gave him a wooden sword—the symbol of his freedom—touched him on the shoulder, and freed him. Maximus laughs, and Proximo gets very defensive. He's proud of the fact that the wise emperor touched him on the shoulder.
Jan 14, 2016 · He looks at the rudis, the wooden sword he got from Marcus Aurelius when he, as a gladiator himself years before, earned his freedom. And he says again, "Shadows and Dust." It turns out, this particular quote is drawn from an authentic Latin source. The Roman poet Horace wrote: pulvis et umbra sumus. We are dust and shadow.
Nov 29, 2017 · 1 Peter 2:4As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual housea to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in ...
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Nov 28, 2023 · Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart” (cf. Ephesians 6:17). The ancient Romans employed the two-edged sword as a formidable offensive weapon, and a metaphorical sword is portrayed in both Hebrews and Revelation. This two-edged ...
