| A | B |
|---|
| titus | opened the Colosseum |
| vespasian | started building the Colosseum |
| secutor | attacker |
| morituri te salutant | gladiator's greeting |
| apparitores | gatekeepers |
| pulvinar | imperial seat of honor |
| naumachia | mock naval battles |
| sica | curved dagger |
| samnite | fought with oblong shield and sword; heavily armored |
| ocrea | shin guard (greave) |
| paria | pairs of gladiators |
| gladiator | "sword fighter" |
| lanista | trainer |
| spartacus | slave who led rebellion |
| capua | city with a famous ludus gladiatorius |
| ludus gladiatorius | gladiator training school |
| myrmillo | fought with a helmet with a fish emblem |
| retiarius | fought with a net and trident |
| thracian | fought with a small round shield and a dagger |
| vela | awning to provide shade |
| andabata | fought with no eyeholes in visor of helmet |
| gladius | sword |
| tridens | 3-pronged spear |
| arena | literally, the "sand" that covered it |
| amphitheatrum flavium | aka the Colosseum |
| parma | small round shield |
| scutum | large oblong shield |
| venatio | wild beast hunt |
| rete | net |
| tesserae | tickets |
| uri vinciri verberari ferroque necari | gladiator's oath |
| hasta | spear |
| galea | helmet |
| essedarius | fought from a war chariot |
| fidenae | city in which a wooden amphitheater collapsed |
| cornicines | horn players |
| forum | place where first public gladiator fights were held |
| funerals | reason for first gladiator fights |
| caligula | emperor who punished a crowd by taking off the vela |
| arles | site for bullfighting |
| bestiarius | trainer of animals |
| munera | duties, gifts, or galdiator games |
| panem et circenses | bread and circuses (food and entertainment) |
| juvenal | roman satirist who criticizes the games |
| julius caesar | went into debt putting on games |
| 50,000 | number of people who fit into the Colosseum |
| nero | emperor whose "colossal" statue was near the colosseum |
| wood | what the colosseum's floor was made of |
| sand | what covered the floor of the colosseum |
| animal and prisoner cages | what was under the colosseum |
| slaves, prisoners of war, criminals, volunteers | types of people who became gladiators |
| nucerians | rioted in Pompeii because of insults exchanged during a gladiator show |
| bestiae | animals |
| caelius | roman official who asked cicero to send him animals |
| gracchus | noble roman who fought as a gladiator |
| androcles | slave who fought a lion who was his friend |
| seneca | pagan philosopher who opposed the games |
| tertullian, augustine | christians who opposed the games |
| constantine | outlawed the games but it wasn't enforced |
| honorius | emperor who finally outlawed gladiator fights although animal fights continued after him |
| verbera | beat him |
| iugula | kill him |
| hoc habet | he's hit |
| mitte | let him go |
| meridiani | midday fighters, usually criminals sentenced to death |
