On the origin of gladiatorial combat, third - century writer Tertullian says: “The ancients thought that by this sort of spectacle they rendered a service to the dead, after they had tempered it with a more cultured form of cruelty.
તેથી, દફનવિધિના સમયે તેઓ સસ્તી કિંમતે લીધેલા ગુલામો કે કેદીઓનો ભોગ આપતા.