Is it true that gladiators were vegetarian that time?

Escribonius called them hordearii, eaters of barley. Their main food source was barley, rye, beans and garlic. read more

And meat was expensive, so gladiators, that were slaves, wouldn't get a lot of it. But they weren't vegetarians, we know that they drank milk and ate cheese and boiled eggs. And probably fish because it was cheaper than meat. read more

At the time, Ephesos was the capital of the Roman province of Asia and had over 200,000 inhabitants. Using spectroscopy, stable isotope ratios (carbon, nitrogen and sulphur) were investigated in the collagen of the bones, along with the ratio of strontium to calcium in the bone mineral. The result shows that gladiators mostly ate a vegetarian diet. read more