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That means Hail Caesar, they who will die they salute you. With the emperor's sign a judge let a handkerchief fall to the ground as an opening signal. When a gladiator was wounded, the spectators shouted “Habet” (“he is wounded”); if he was at the mercy of his adversary, he lifted up his forefinger to implore the clemency of the people, to who (in the later times of the Republic) the giver left the decision as to his life or death. If the spectators were in favor of mercy they waved their handkerchiefs; if they desired the death of the conquered gladiator they turned their thumbs downward. (This the popular view; another view is that those who wanted death of the defeated gladiator turned their thumbs toward their breast as a signal to stab him and those who wished him to be spared turned their thumbs downward as a signal to drop the sword.) The final judge was the master of the games -usually the emperor- which gave with his thumb the final decision. The reward of victory consisted of branches of palm, sometimes of money.

The great Roman general Maximus (Russell Crowe) has once again led the legions to victory on the battlefield. The war won, Maximus dreams of home, wanting only to return to his wife and son. However, the dying emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) has one more duty for the general to assume the mantle of his power. Jealous of Maximus favor with the emperor, the heir to the throne, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), orders his execution and that of his family. Barely escaping death, Maximus is forced into slavery and trained as a gladiator in the arena where his fame grows. Now he has came to Rome, intents on avenging the murder of his wife and son by killing the new emperor Commodus.

Gladiator (Latin: “swordsman,” from gladius, “sword”), professional combatant in ancient Rome. The gladiators originally performed at Etruscan funerals, no doubt with intent to give the dead man armed attendants in the next world; hence the fights were usually to the death. At show in Rome these exhibitions became wildly popular and increased in size from three pairs at the first known exhibition in 264 BC (at the funeral of a Brutus) to 300 pairs in the time of Julius Caesar (d.44 BC). Hence the shows extended from one day to as many as a hundred, under the emperor Titus; while the emperor Trajan in his triumph (AD 107) had 5,000 pairs of gladiators. Shows were also given in other towns of the Roman Empire, as can be seen form the traces of a

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