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The gladiation officials insisted, however, that gladiating was “as safe as it has always been, and definitely way safer than naumachia.”

The naumachia was a sea-fight, either in the arena, which was flooded for the occasion by a system of pipes and sluices, or on an artificial lake.

Sometimes the vast arena was flooded with water, and naumachia or sea-fights were exhibited.

The brother and heir of the murdered man offered him to me cheap for the naumachia, and if he survived--for the tiger.

Fourth; naumachia, or the representation of a sea fight; those who fought, were usually composed of captives or condemned malefactors, who fought to death, unless saved by the clemency of the emperors.