A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ose whowere exhibited. (Senec. I. c.) Provoeatores fought with the Samnites (Cic. proSext. 64), but we do not know any thing respect-ing them except their name. They are mentionedin inscriptions. (Orelli, 2566.) The irpogoKdrcopmentioned by Artemiodorus (ii. 32) appears to bethe same as the provocator. Retiarii carried only a three-pointed lance, calledtridens orfuscina [FusciNA],anda net (rete), whichthey endeavoured to throw over their adversaries,and then to attack them with the fuscina while theywere entangled. The retiarius was dressed in a
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . ose whowere exhibited. (Senec. I. c.) Provoeatores fought with the Samnites (Cic. proSext. 64), but we do not know any thing respect-ing them except their name. They are mentionedin inscriptions. (Orelli, 2566.) The irpogoKdrcopmentioned by Artemiodorus (ii. 32) appears to bethe same as the provocator. Retiarii carried only a three-pointed lance, calledtridens orfuscina [FusciNA],anda net (rete), whichthey endeavoured to throw over their adversaries,and then to attack them with the fuscina while theywere entangled. The retiarius was dressed in a shorttunic, and wore nothing on his head. If he missedhis aim in throwing the net, he betook himself toflight, and endeavoured to prepare his net for asecond cast, while his adversary followed him roundthe arena in order to kill him before he could makea second attempt. His adversary was usually asecutor or a mirmillo. (Juv. ii. 143, viii. 203 ; 30 ; Claud. 34 ; Orelli, 2578.) In the follow-ing woodcut, taken from Winckelmann ( 576 GLADIATORES. GLADIATORES. Ined. pi. 197), a combat is represented between aretiarius and a mirmillo: the former has thrownhis net over the head of the latter, and is proceed-ing to attack him with the fuscina. The lanistastands behind the retiarius. Samnites were so called, because they werearmed in the same way as that people, and wereparticularly distinguished by the oblong scutum.(Liv. ix. 40 ; Cic. pro SeM. 64.) Secutores are supposed by some writers to be socalled because the secutor in his combat with theretiarius pursued the latter when he failed in se-curing him by his net. Other writers think thatthey were the same as the stipposititii, mentioned byMartial (v. 24), who were gladiators substituted inthe place of those who were wearied or were killed.(Suet. Col. 30 ; Juv. viii. 210.) If the old readingin a letter of Ciceros (ad Ait. vii. 14) is correct,Julius Caesar had no less than 500 secutores in hisludus at Capua ; but it
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