A battle between gladiators in the circus, ancient Rome. A retiarius with net and trident fights a secutor armed with cudgel and shield. Both wear skirts and short trousers or sagulum gregale. Gladiateurs: Retiers chez les Romains. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by L. Labrousse, artist of Bordeaux, under the direction of Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his L’antique Rome, ou description historique et pittoresque, Ancient Rome, or historical and picturesque description, Chez Deroy, Paris, 1796.

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