Which tells of the journey to Capua by part of the company at the Villa Salaria, of some details of that beautiful city, and of how the travellers witnessed the crucifixion of the last of the gladiators.

This chapter explains the journey to Capua by part of the company at the Villa and of how the travellers witnessed the crucifixion of the last of the gladiators. Capua was in a gala mood, a city at the height of its fame and glory and prosperity-with the stain of servile war wiped away. The essence of it was that Crassus did not care whether this crucifixion of the gladiators represented justice in the light of these specific facts or not. So the sands of his small cup of life seemed to have run out an agent of Lentulus Batiatus bought him for the school at Capua Such was the pattern of the second part of the gladiator's life, the time of knowing and hating. Because it was so popular a city for tourists, it was a point of pride among the wealthier citizens of Capua to provide fighting pairs for a minimum of three hundred days of the year.