While gladiators may have used unique weapons, they also used implements of war that were more familiar throughout the Roman ...

JULIA: I just found this fragment of rusty metal. It doesn’t look like much but this was once a sword. A sword known as…the gladius! The gladius was part of the Roman soldier’s equipment ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled ... Each legionnaire (or 'miles') carried a short sword, called a gladius. This was his main weapon. He also carried a 'pilum' (javelin), a helmet ...

The first reports of gladiators (the name comes from the type of sword they used: the gladius) appears around ... considered to be lowly types, and Roman citizens of good standing wouldn’t ...