Note 214 — Chapter V · SECOND PERIOD OF HUMANISM
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The language of the arena was used by these literary combatants. Thus Valla, in the exordium of his Antidote, describes his weapon of attack in this sentence:—'Hæc est mea fusana, quandoquidem gladiator a gladiatore fieri cogor, et ea duplex et utraque tridens,' p. 9.