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Dying Gladiator
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synonyms: Dying Gaul, Dying Galatian ???
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Definition:[The Dying Gaul] an Ancient Roman marble copy of a lost Hellenistic sculpture, thought to have been originally executed in bronze.[...]The copy was most commonly known as The Dying Gladiator until the 20th century on the assumption that it depicted a wounded gladiator in a Roman amphitheatre. Scholars had identified it as a Gaul or Galatian by the mid-19th century, but it took many decades for the new title to achieve popular acceptance.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
photo: By Yair Haklai - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8053546
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There was a sofa where Mr. Pocket stood, and he dropped upon it in the attitude of the Dying Gladiator.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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We saw the Dying Gladiator at the Capitol, and I think that even we appreciated that wonder of art; as much, perhaps, as we did that fearful story wrought in marble, in the Vatican--the Laocoon.
Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad (1869)
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