Painterly frost-covered short sword resting diagonally on dark slate.

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Maximus

It's the frost, it sometimes makes the blade stick.

— Gladiator

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker offers frost as a practical explanation for a blade sticking. The wording is brief and matter of fact, reducing a problem with a weapon to a familiar effect of cold. Its understatement leaves the wider circumstances unstated rather than dramatizing them.

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