School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . A MIRMILLO AND A RETIAEIDS. Samnttes were so called, because theywere armed in the same way as that people,and were particularly distinguished by theoblong scutum. Secutores are supposed by some writersto be so called because the secutor in hiscombat with the retiarius pursued the latterwhen he failed in securing him by his writers think that they were thesame as the supposititii, who were gladiatorssubstituted in the place of those who werewearied or weie killed. Ihraces or Threces were armed, like theThracians, with a round shield
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . A MIRMILLO AND A RETIAEIDS. Samnttes were so called, because theywere armed in the same way as that people,and were particularly distinguished by theoblong scutum. Secutores are supposed by some writersto be so called because the secutor in hiscombat with the retiarius pursued the latterwhen he failed in securing him by his writers think that they were thesame as the supposititii, who were gladiatorssubstituted in the place of those who werewearied or weie killed. Ihraces or Threces were armed, like theThracians, with a round shield or buckler,and a short sword or dagger (sica). Theywere usually matched, as already stated,with the mirmillones. The following wood-cut represents a combat between twoThracians. A lanista stands behind THRACIANS. GUBERNACULUM. GLADIUS (|td)OF, poet. &op, ^dayavov^a sword or glaive, by the Latin poets calledensis. The ancient sword had generally astraight two-edged blade, rather broad, andnearly of equal width from hilt to Greeks and Romans wore them on theleft side [cut, p. J 2,], so as to draw them outof the sheath (vagina, KoXeos) by passingthe right hand in front of the body to takehold of the hilt with the thumb next to theblade. The early Greeks used a very shortsword. Iphicrates, who made various im-provements in armour about 400 b. c,doubled its length. The Roman swordwas larger, heavier, and more formidablethan the Greek. GLANDES. [FuNDA.] GOLD. [AuRUM.] GRAMMATEUS (ypafxfiarevs), a clerkor scribe. Among the great number ofscribes employed by the magistrates andgovernment of Athens, there were three ofa higher rank, who were real of them was appointed by lot, by the fsenate, to serve the time of the adminis-tration of each prytany, though he
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