Ludi Sacerdotales Means “The Roman Gladiator”
There are perhaps few places where violence has been celebrated by so many and in such a decadent manner as in The Colosseum in ancient Rome.
Those willing were trained in private gladiator schools, ludi. At these private and imperial schools, gladiators became specialist in combat techniques that disabled and captured their opponents rather than killed them quickly.

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
- Ambrose Redmoon