sentences:  In the 5th century BC; Marcus Claudius Marcellus took the "spolia opima" from Viridomarus, king of the Gaesatae, at the Battle of Clastidium (222 BC); and Marcus Licinius Crassus from Deldo, king of the Bastarnae (29 BC).Depictions of single combat also appear in the Hindu epics of the Mahābhārata and the Ramayana.Single combats are often preludes to battles in the Chinese epic "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and are featured prominently throughout the epic.