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Retiarius   Listen
noun
Retiarius  n.  (Rom.Antiq.) A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.






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"Retiarius" Quotes from Famous Books



... active without being strong, I should make a retiarius of him," Scopus said. "If he is strong without being active, he would naturally fight with sword and buckler. Then there is the caestus, but the Romans do not care for that, though, to my mind, it is the finest of all the exercises; for that both strength ...
— Beric the Briton - A Story of the Roman Invasion • G. A. Henty

... The mirmillo was the gladiator who fought with the retiarius; he wore a Gallic helmet with ...
— The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 • Cicero



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