 as a General riding with the cavalry of the Felix Legion, (in  the opening battle) he wields a sword known as a "Spatha", popular  among the continental tribes especially in Spain and southern Gaul.  As a Gladiator, he uses a sword similar to the spatha in appearance  but shorter and broader. This weapon is known as the "Gladius  Hispaniensis", and was adopted by the Roman infantry after Scipios  invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in the II century B.C., after the  end of the 2nd Punic War. Roman infantry wore the gladius on the  right side 