The Story of the Romans (Yesterday's Classics) by H. A. Guerber
Author:H. A. Guerber
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: History
ISBN: 9781599150123
Publisher: Yesterday's Classics
Published: 2010-11-09T20:01:30.281000+00:00
The Gladiator Condemned
When a gladiator fell after a brave resistance, the people sometimes wished to save his life, so that he could recover and come and amuse them again. As a signal to his opponent to spare him, they clapped their hands and waved their handkerchiefs. But if the poor gladiator had failed to please them, they ruthlessly turned their thumbs down, and thus condemned him to instant death, which they viewed with great indifference.
Androclus, a slave, was once sent into the arena to fight a lion. The people were surprised to see the beast fawn upon, instead of attacking, him. But when Androclus explained that once when he was in the desert he had drawn a thorn out of the lion's paw, they were so pleased that they bade him go free, and gave him the lion.
Download
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino(541)
Harriet Tubman: The Biography by University Press(533)
American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa(479)
Drawing by Maury Aaseng(477)
When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler(455)
One Dead Spy (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Book 1) by Nathan Hale(422)
Don't Know Much About History [30th Anniversary Edition] by Kenneth C. Davis(396)
Escape to Gold Mountain by David H.T. Wong & David H.T. Wong(395)
Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson(381)
The Great Depression (Inquire and Investigate) by Amidon Lusted Marcia(378)
Fallout by Steve Sheinkin(375)
The Story Pirates Present: Digging Up Danger by StoryPirates & Jacqueline West(352)
Everything: Ancient Egypt by National Geographic Kids(350)
Who Was Queen Victoria? by Jim Gigliotti(344)
Farewell to Manzanar by JEANNE HOUSTON(342)
The Second World War by Paul Dowswell(332)
Abraham Lincoln by George S. McGovern(329)
Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta 1325-1354 by James Rumford(326)
Celebrate People's History by Unknown(322)