is hard to see what name to give them savethat of murmillo. The round shield must then be the scutummurmillonicum of which we read in Festus. The usual adversaryof the murmillo was the retiarius in the first century a.d., after-wards the Thraex. The types above described were those most commonly… … Tomb-relief of M. Autonius Exoclius, a Thracx (from a drawing in theRoyal Library at Windsor). 364 PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS chap, vii from the retiarkis only in the fact that his weapon of offence wasthe lasso and not the net. The dimacJiaenis, as the name shows,was armed with two cutlasses. The velites…
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