Florian blinked. He knew there were two kinds of people in this world: those who were immediately on guard when an opponent presented an invite, and those who attacked blindly into it. He had hoped Brennus wasn't the latter, but this too would be interesting.  

It appeared Florian's simple ruse had succeeded. Brennus moved his right foot forward, striking in gran passata towards his left shoulder. A gran passata allowed the fighter to cover large distances, but was difficult to control. Florian knew this very well. 

With a practiced movement, he brought his left foot forward in passata and parried Brennus' attack, moving his arm above his head, so as to position Florian's sword horizontally, point facing left, protecting his upper left body, where Brennus was attacking. His own passata allowed him to reach grappling distance -- but Florian had the advantage, since Brennus' movement would take several moments to complete, and his sword was already caught by Florian's parry. 

As the gladiator completed his movement, Florian moved to grab his sword hand. If this succeeded, he would disengage his blade and take Brennus' head cleanly off.