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- A hoplomachus (pl. hoplomachi) (hoplon meaning "equipment" in Gr****) was a type of gladiator in ancient Rome, armed to resemble a Gr**** hoplite (soldier...
- 4th century gloss of Juvenal's comments on the beast-hunter Mevia. The hoplomachus (Romanised Gr**** for "armed fighter", Latin plural hoplomachii) wore...
- calluses and blisters. The murmillo usually fought the thraex (Thracian) or hoplomachus, with whom he shared some of the equipment (notably arm guards and all-enclosing...
- alternating yellow and black. Gladiators such as the samnis and the hoplomachus also probably wore large feathered crests. There is some evidence (Vegetius'...
- The Samnite was replaced by similarly armed gladiators, including the hoplomachus and the secutor. The Samnite was named for the people of Samnium, an...
- Pottery fragment depicting the Thraex or Thracian gladiator (right), fighting a hoplomachus....
- century AD. It shows (left to right) a thraex fighting a murmillo, a hoplomachus standing with another murmillo (who is signaling his defeat to the referee)...
- They are also referred to as fighting against a gladiator class called hoplomachus, which, according to Justus Lipsius, was a ****tive variant of the Samnite...
- another secutor, Mazicinus, is struck by the retiarius Almunus, an hoplomachus fatally wounds the retiarius, Callimorfus, and finally a smaller gladiator...
- Palearctic Genus Hamatophylus Weirauch, 2006 - Nearctic, Mexico Genus Hoplomachus Fieber, 1858 - Holarctic Genus Ihermocoris ****n, 1875 - Palearctic Genus...