A cikin waɗannan makarantu, fursunonin yaƙi da laifukan da aka yanke wa hukunci - waɗanda aka ɗauka bayi - an koyar da su ƙwarewar da ake buƙata don yin yaƙi a wasannin gladiator. A cikin 73 BC, ƙungiyar gladiators kusan 200 a cikin makarantar Capuan mallakar Lentulus Batiatus sun shirya tserewa. Lokacin da aka ci amanar makircin su, wani rukuni na maza kusan 70 sun kwace kayan aikin kicin ("chopits da spits"), sun sami 'yanci daga makarantar, kuma sun kwace wasu karusai na makamai na gladiator da makamai. Da zarar sun sami' yanci, 'yan gudun hijirar sun zaɓi kansu daga shugabannin su, suna zaɓar bayi biyu Thrixus da Thraencus Octavius, waɗanda aka ba da horo a cikin waɗannan makarantu, an koya musu ƙwarewar da ake buƙata don yin yaƙi a wasannin gladiator.
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