Gladiatorial

Gladiatorial combat took place in Roman amphitheatres.

Gladiatorial entertainment was common in ancient Rome.

"And all the better for yourself if you never enter the gladiatorial arena of public life: you will sacrifice time, health, and talents; you will be paragraphed—probably pelted; you will die of an inflammation, or a consumption; and leave it a debatable point to historians, what was the extent of the injury you did your country."