A leopard crept into the sunlight, tried to turn again but was prevented by the closing trap, and crouched against the arena wall.

sed si arena amplius in navem mittatur, mergit illam; quam minutae guttae, pluviae?

Let the cross, the sword, and the arena answer, whether the world, that then was, so understood its first preachers and apostles.

Secondly, I should like to thank all those who have assisted me with suggestions and the loan of photographs, especially my "arena colleagues" who have rallied round me so graphically in the last chapter.

For here religion seemed to have stepped down into an arena hitherto (as he fancied) restricted to the play of physical forces.

Upon this, Pepin sprang into the arena sword in hand, and with two blows cut off the heads of the lion and the bull.