Personally, I think it's because it was simple and free entertainment. Given that there wasn't a taboo around death and watching others die, and it actually being encouraged, like how it was in Anciient Rome, I'd say a lot of people would actually at least try out visiting a gladiatorial contest.
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It would be in "Medicine" that one is most likely to find English words with Latin roots, since the earliest physicians wrote and interacted mostly in Latin, and left behind a catalogue of Latin medical knowledge. <span />
