Quote - Romans didn't have swords, the gladius is not a sword, is a long knife used as secondary weapon. The primary weapon was the pillum ( a pike).
The Roman or Latin name for sword is spatia and not gladius.
The spatia even knwon and taken from the Iberians had no practical use as a weapon, because a sword without steel is useless and easily breaks in the first combat.
The sword as a weapon only appeared with the Saracens and were improved by the Spanish, the first swords were from Damasco and later from Toledo.
Even so, in the begining were very rare and legendary, (excalibur, the sword of the Cid, etc). It was very dificult to find or make a sword that had a primitive steel, were very expensive, so only a grand grand lord could afford it, it were useless and broke easily, so the weapons used by the soldiers remained to be the classical pikes, clubs, hammers, axes.
Only in the 16th century swords become the main weapon for Spanish soldiers together with ballistas and primitive guns.

Wrong, wrong, and wrong...