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- A retiarius (plural retiarii; literally, "net-man" in Latin) was a Roman gladiator who fought with equipment styled on that of a fisherman: a weighted...
- fighting retiarii, the net-fighters) are arbelai; however, they have also been seen as the scissores who likewise may have been matched against retiarii. Artemidorus...
- hoplomachi when battling a Thracian, and a secutor when matched against retiarii. The oplomachi were a designation or possibly a class of Roman gladiator...
- secutor, a class of gladiators in Rome. His common opponents were thus retiarii. Fighters were granted retirement or freedom if they showed great skill...
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- death for putting on a poor show chose to submit: Once a band of five retiarii in tunics, matched against the same number of secutores, yielded without...
- platform, called a pons (bridge), may have been constructed over water. Retiarii usually fought secutores but sometimes fought myrmillones. There was an...
- was viewed as effeminate due to his light armaments. Accordingly, some retiarii may have trained as Samnites to improve their status. Gladiators who fought...
- Talamonius and Aurius, two retiarii where Talamonius is victorious and a Θ can be seen next to Aurius' head. Above the two retiarii is another pair of gladiators...
- Quae ad Latinitatis Humanisticae et Recentissimae Proprietates Spectant" (Retiarii editio supernumeraria) 2001: "De Marco Antonio Mureto Oratore et Gallo...