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- Where is the master?
- Strabo!
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- More prisoners.
- Open up.
:16:24
You prisoners are lucky to be sentenced to
train as gladiators in the Claudian school,...
:16:29
..rather than to one of the imperial schools.
:16:31
This is the best. We have
the best trainers, the best physicians...
:16:34
..to watch over your skins,
your health, your food.
:16:40
We'll feed you well and dress you well.
:16:43
You'll have meat at every meal.
:16:45
Gladiators trained in this school are sought
after for the most important festival games...
:16:50
..and also for
the emperor's private enclosure.
:16:53
That's because we have an iron motto:
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''We live well, we die well.''
:16:59
Unchain them.
:17:02
lt may seem in being sentenced here
you're being sentenced to death.
:17:06
That's not necessarily true.
:17:08
l, Strabo, was sentenced here
as you are, but l fought well.
:17:11
l won fame and a fortune, too.
And l won my freedom.
:17:15
The emperor himself calls me by name.
:17:18
Even the most famous of the charioteers
has to give way to me.
:17:22
l fought 52 times in the arena.
:17:26
l killed 52 men.
:17:29
Perhaps one of you will do as well.
:17:32
Come.
:17:37
Dardanius here is the best of netmen.
:17:39
You've seen his name often where the girls
have scratched it on the walls of Rome.
:17:45
He likes the way we live here.
He likes to kill. He's a born butcher.
:17:49
But he can have his choice
of fair ladies. Tonight he will.
:17:53
And so will you
when you're ready for the arena.
:17:57
Glycon was a king in his own country.
Now he's the king of swordsmen.