Talk:Lucanus Flavius/@comment-36277500-20190326120207

I suppose that he's a former gladiator. He's a foreigner (African), so I doubt he's a free Roman citizen by birth. Probably he had been enslaved, trained to fight on arena, then was freed after many victories. It used to happen to the best gladiators who managed to survive long enough to grow old. They usually became teachers for the next generations of gladiators.

Edit: I knew it...