Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.
hoplŏmăchus: i, m., = ὁπλομάχος,
I a heavy-armed combatant, a sort of gladiator, Suet. Calig. 35; Mart. 8, 74, 1; Firm. Math. 8, 21; Inscr. Orell. 2566.