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In her book Gladiator and Contemporary Society, University of New Mexico Professor of Classics Monica S. Cyrino writes: When Marcus Aurelius asks Maximus after the battle in Germania: "Tell me about your home," Maximus delivers a sentimental speech about the simple beauty and tranquillity of his farm, with its fecund soil "black like my wife's ...

This is from the script. I couldn't find a video. The blood probably comes from the blow to the head. Tigris was pretty injured from this hit but was probably trying to hold back any sign of his being hurt that bad until the axe went into his foot and he couldn't stand the pain so the blood that was in his mouth from the hit to the head came out at that ...