Crowe went on to win the best actor Oscar for his role as Maximus.
The final scene in the movie GLADIATOR did not end with Maximus riding victoriously into Rome as a triumphant General.
The time trial course ended in front of the Colosseum, having taken the riders past the Vatican and the Circus Maximus.
The role of Pontifex Maximus and the College of Pontiffs were, legendarily, founded by the second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius.
Sri Lanka's Maximus markets its paper goods through distributors who play up the living wages it pays farmers so they won't kill elephants.
The giant Aepyornis maximus of Madagascar, known as the elephant bird, has been extinct since the 17th century, hunted down for its rich meat.
Dora, a busy finance executive in her mid-40s, rated her flirting skills as one out of 10 before she started flexing her flirtimus to the maximus.
While we were hoping for the Optimus Prime (there's more than meets the eye), it looks like they've settled on Optimus Maximus (the god of gods).
The scene in which Maximus rides home only to find his family burnt alive and crucified is played silent, and is all the more moving for it.
From the Colosseum, cutting across the ancient racecourse Circus Maximus, it is a wonderful stroll up the Aventino, one of Rome's seven hills, home to a dreamily upmarket residential district with deep-green trees shading its orange-ochre buildings.
It glorified Eliseg and Cyngen, proclaiming their lineage from the Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus and his son Vortigern (or Gwrtheyrn), and asserted that Eliseg drove the English from the area after they had laid this borderland waste for nine years.
Roberts is a director at the London-based property and planning consultancy Turnberry Consulting, and in his latest book, Racecourse Architecture, he and co-author Isabelle Taylor trace the history of race courses, beginning with the Circus Maximus and the first century B.
While it's no Jelly Bean, the Maximus-tuned version of HTC's Android 4.0 flavor appears to give Sense a shot in the arm, taking care of lag in the launcher and live wallpapers in addition to delivering a healthy overall speed boost.
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Well-known HTC phone modder Football doesn't want us to get comfy: he claims to have both obtained a leaked version of Sense 4.1's ROM Upgrade Utility (RUU) and folded it into the 2.2 update to his Maximus firmware for the international One X.
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Once more, Kentucky was elevated by its 6-foot, 10 inch freshman Anthony Davis, who had 18 points, 14 rebounds, five blocked shots and concluded the game by heaving the ball in the air, pointing to the court and exclaiming, Maximus-like, "This is my stage!"
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AD, never lingers over local colour, but keeps a firm, if not wholly accurate, grip on the conflict at the heart of the drama between General Maximus, who is Caesar's chosen successor, and the emperor's son Commodus, who will not let parricide or incest stand in the way of cementing a dynasty.
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