If they succeeded in the games, after winning a good number of battles they could receive a wooden sword known as a rudis, a prize that demonstrated that they had achieved freedom through their ...

Rudis – A small wooden sword given to a Gladiator as proof of his achieved freedom. It signifies his ascent from being a slave to becoming a free man. One thing is certain – anything th… ...

They carry a wooden rudis or sword with the words With Courage, Comes Freedom. "The gladiators who won their fights carried a rudis, which was like carrying their slave papers to prove they won ...

Rudis, the wooden sword that granted freedom to slaves The story in ‘Gladiator’ may be pure fiction, but the movie uses real characters, situations, and elements that come from history.