- Look up
mirmillo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The
murmillo (also
sometimes spelled "mirmillo", "myrmillo", or "mirmillones" pl. murmillones) was...
- type,
which by Tacitus' own time had been
developed and
renamed as the
murmillo. The
dimachaerus (Gr**** διμάχαιρος, "bearing two knives") used a sword...
- follow, come or go after") was
armed similarly to the
murmillo gladiator and like the
murmillo, was
protected by a
heavy shield. A
secutor usually carried...
- Republic. Eventually,
other gladiator types joined the roster, such as the
murmillo and the Thraex.
Under the
reign of
Emperor Augustus,
Samnium became an...
-
British Museum Press, 2000.
Wikimedia Commons has
media related to Thraces.
Fresco of a
murmillo and
Thracian fighting,
found in
Pompei in 2019 v t e v t e...
- some sort,
possibly usually as a woman, and
matched against a
secutor or
murmillo in a mock
gladiatorial exhibition."
Despite their low status, some retiarii...
-
probably the most po****r type, was
renamed secutor and the Gaul
renamed murmillo, once
these former enemies had been
conquered then
absorbed into Rome's...
-
weapons were the
spear and a
short sword. He was
often pitted against the
murmillo (armed like a
Roman soldier),
perhaps as a re-enactment of Rome's wars...
- worn by the
heavy infantry of the legions. Some gladiators,
specifically murmillo (myrmillo), also wore
bronze galeae with face
masks and decorations, often...
-
spectators at the Colosseum,
including the Vestals, to the
victorious murmillo,
while the
defeated retiarius raises two
fingers to
plead for mercy. The...
