Stage 8: Gladiatores

Stage 8: Gladiatores

Gladiatores lines 1-4

Rēgulus erat senātor Rōmānus. in vīllā magnificā

habitābat. vīlla erat prope Nūceriam. Nūcerīnī et

Pompēiānī erant inimīcī. Nūcerīnī, quod

amphitheātrum nōn habēbant, saepe ad

amphitheātrum Pompēiānum veniēbant; saepe

erant turbulentī.

Gladiatores lines 5-9

Rēgulus ōlim spectāculum splendidam in amphitheātrō

ēdidit, quod diem nātālem celebrabat. multī Nūcerīnī

igitur ad urbem vēnērunt. cīvēs Pompēiānī erant īrātī,

quod Nūcerīnī viās complēbant. omnēs tamen ad

forum contendērunt, ubi nūntiī stābant. nūntiī

spectāculum optimum nūntiābant:

Multiple Choice

cūr Rēgulus spectaculum splendidam in amphitheātrō ēdidit?

• Nucerini amphitheatrum non habebant.

• natalam diem celebrabat

• Nucerini vias complebant

• cives Pompeiani erant irati.

Multiple Choice

cūr Pompēiānī erant īratī?

• Nucerini amphitheatrum non habebant.

• natalam diem celebrabat

• Nucerini vias complebant

• Regulus spectaculum splendidum in amphitheatro edidit.

Open Ended

If you had lived in Pompeii at that time, would you have been angry with the Nucerini?

Gladiatores lines 10-11

“gladiātōrēs adsunt! vīgintī gladiātōrēs hodiē

pugnant! Rētiāriī adsunt! murmillōnēs adsunt! 

bēstiāriī bēstiās ferōcēs agitant!”

Gladiatores 12-17

Nūcerīnī, postquam nūntiōs audīvērunt, ad

amphitheātrum quam celerrimē contendērunt. Pompēiānī

quoque ad amphitheātrum festīnāvērunt. hī Pompēiānī

Nūcerīnōs Regulum vituperābant, quod Nūcerīnī erant

turbulentī. omnēs vehementer clāmābant. cīvēs, tamen,

postquam amphitheātrum intrāvērunt, tacuērunt.

prīmam pugnam exspectābant.

Open Ended

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