With a flourish, , and lions, bears, wild boars and leopards rushed into the arena.
To take them on meant death, subjugation, and the rape of your women, which was commonplace in those days.
Sure, I knew the romans were a horny bunch of homosexual in most cases , child and slave raping, dirty bastards but INFANTICIDE??!!? One criminal would push off the ground and suddenly find himself 15 feet in the air while his partner on the other side of the seesaw descended swiftly to the ground.