. The life of the Greeks and Romans. by command ofthe emperor they were to be killed, one ofthem suddenly took a fuscina and killed allthe secutores. A mosaic (Fig. 501, a, b)illustrates their mode of fighting. In , a, the secutor, entangled in the net, attacksthe retiarius lying on the ground, while the latter, having droppedhis trident, defends himself with a dagger. In Fig. 501, b, theretiarius attacks his entangledantagonist with the fuscina,seemingly with success. Accord-ing to Isidorus, the secutorescarried a stick with lead bulletsattached to it, with which theytried to keep off
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. by command ofthe emperor they were to be killed, one ofthem suddenly took a fuscina and killed allthe secutores. A mosaic (Fig. 501, a, b)illustrates their mode of fighting. In , a, the secutor, entangled in the net, attacksthe retiarius lying on the ground, while the latter, having droppedhis trident, defends himself with a dagger. In Fig. 501, b, theretiarius attacks his entangledantagonist with the fuscina,seemingly with success. Accord-ing to Isidorus, the secutorescarried a stick with lead bulletsattached to it, with which theytried to keep off the net.* The laquearii also were light-armed gladiators. They carrieda sort of lasso, which they threwover their antagonist in orderto pull him down. They wereof late imperial origin. Themyrmitto and the Gallus werefrequently opposed to the reti-arius. Their armour was thatof the Gauls, the name myrmitto being derived from a fish (juiopiuLvXos) adorning the crest of theirhelmet. Fig. 502, taken from a tomb, most likely represents a. * Gestabat enim cuspidem et massam plumbeam, quce adversarii iaculwn impediret, atantequam feriret reie, iste supcraret ; compare Revue Archeol., IX., p. 80. VARIOUS CLASSES OF GLADIATORS. myrmillo. A fight between a myrmillo and a retiarius is repre-sented in the mosaic pavement of the Roman villa at Nennig (seev. Wilmowsky, Die rom. Villa zu ISTennig ). The torques roundthe neck of the gladiator in our illustration (Fig. 502) indicates theGallus, while the crest of the helmet hung on the pole distinctly showsthe fish, characteristic of the myrmillo. Another class of gladiators,frequently mentioned in imperial times, were the Thraces. Theywere armed with a small round shield (parma), greaves, and adagger, either curved like a scythe (sica, frequently seen onimperial monuments in the hands of barbarian warriors) or bentin a straight-lined angle. The hoplomachi were completely armedwith helmet, cuirass, and greaves. Gladiators also fought in chariot
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