Yet by the time of trajan's rule, Most roman men no longer fought in the military. - And...

For many romans, when they looked at a female gladiator, They saw moral decay at work in their society. It was something that was undermining The very military values That gladiators were meant to represent. And of course, they were the very military values That had won rome its empire in the first place. Narrator: Yet by the time of trajan's rule, Most roman men no longer fought in the military. - And for roman traditionalists, Looking back at--compared to previous generations, This was a cause for concern. They may have felt-- in fact, they did feel-- That rome was going soft. By juvenal's day,
this attitude was rampant