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... we honestly have not seen any action by the established "second row" gladiators of Ashur's ludus.

Besides training and a very brief excursion to the nocturnal arena to depose of Proculus' men, we have not seen any duels by the likes of Hedylus (Numidian (?) retiarius), Ephesius (Carthaginian (?) hoplomachus), Salvius and Erato (Murmillos?). While they regularly were decked out in armour and ready to fight for the various munera, they were seen as little more than encouraging Tarchon, Celadus and Achillia from the "dugout" and lacked their own (on-screen) pairings.

I think they deserve their moments in the limelight in a second season. I would hope such could be machinated by a bette

Well met, redditors. Is accumulated linguistical acumen in community sufficient to extract additional meaning from cryptic foreign tongue spoken by Ashur during entreaty to Gods (Syrian?) upon sacrificed goat before supine champion or that of Opiter's Greek Medicus (old hellenic Greek ?) in the endeavour to heal said Champion in current episode?

This party has been going on for more than 40 strips now (Claire & Co. saying goodbye to Marten at #5602, arriving at Willow's/Iris'/Yemisi's apartment at #5603). It has been interrupted by 3 or 4 or so strips centering on the conversation Marten/Faye/Bubbles/Pintsize.

Let's move back in time and see how parties were handled and paced before... say... 2010?

#1673 Faye invites Angus & Marigold to a "Beer and stupid YT clips" evening to their apartment.
The whole evening with plenty of character development and interpersonal drama is concluded by [#1692](https://questionablec