The nature of the ban on arms within Rome\'s pomeri

[Tarbicus]

In particular relation to our subject, Pompeius had filled the Forum and the surrounding area with armed soldiers!

Does it mention edged weapons? Soldiers carried clubs when policing, so I could argue that was probably what they carried.

I don't know enough about gladiators to know where the early games were held. I thought that some were held in the Forum, and some at tombs outside the city?

The Forum (the cattle market) was outside of the pomerium at the time.

This was a response to Caesar's death in the Forum

Caesar was assassinated in Pompey's Theatre, nowhere near the Forum, well outside of the pomerium.