Attacks by leopard, bear, boar. Ferocissima vacca for the women. Shaw thinks using a cow showed these women were different from those against whom a bull, assocd with adultery, would be used. P tries to keep herself covered when attacked, keep her hair tidy. They are called back to Porta Sanavivaria.
P emerges from a trance.
Martyrs finished off with the sword. Trainee gladiator can only kill P with her guidance. It was as though so great a woman, feared as she was by the unclean spirit, could not be dispatched unless she herself were willing.