However, he was killed.

His sisters, who were present, expressed considerable regret.

His mother left the Coliseum.

The other youth maintained the contest with such spirit as to call forth enthusiastic bursts of applause.

When at last he fell a corpse, his aged mother ran screaming, with hair disheveled and tears streaming from her eyes, and swooned away just as her hands were clutching at the railings of the arena.