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Rete: A weighted net used to trap opponents. by Eckart Köhne and Cornelia Ewigleben (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2000), p. 63"The Retiarius Tunicatus of Suetonius, Juvenal, and Petronius" (1989) by Steven M. Cerutti and L. Richardson, Jr. 2. A murmillo, often called a fish … They also tended to rely on evasive tactics, meaning they would avoid close hand-to-hand combat. The helmet was smooth to make it harder for the net of a retiarius to catch it. They were very rare and their existence is poorly documented.
Literally a "Gaul"; either a prisoner of war, as in the earliest forms of A modern term, referring to a female gladiator of any type. Secutores only appear in about 60–70 AD. A secutor wore a smooth helmet.
1. The secutor gladiator was armed in a fairly standard fashion and carried a short sword which was known as a gladius. A secutor and a murmillo were armed and equipped the same except that a secutor specialised in fighting retiarii (net and trident men) and had a plainer uncrested helmet with small eye holes. Pugio: A dagger. The secutor ("pursuer") developed to fight the retiarius. In the late Republican and early Imperial era, the armament of a A gladiator who had earned his freedom received a wooden sword (a There's limited information, but it's believed the The sponsor who financed gladiatorial spectacles was the An arena referee or his assistants, named after the wooden staff (Stephen Wisdom, Angus McBride, Gladiators: 100 BC - AD 200, Oxford, United Kingdom, Osprey. Manica and galerus: Two guards to protect the arm and shoulder, respectively. The Retiarius, in contradiction, usually fought against heavily-armored opponents:
A murmillo or a secutor would be a scutarius; the additional protection or advantage afforded by the large shield was typically offset by the use of only one short greave, in contrast to the two greaves of a parmularius. An overly dramatic Retiarius finishes off his opponent.Retiarii were viewed as some of the lowliest of the gladiators, as the lack of armor and the engulfing net were thought to give them a more effeminate appearance. The A secutor usually faced a retiarius in the arena. The large scutum was the common shield used by the Roman legionaries, and while heavy it was very strong and capable of affording the murmillo to adopt an interesting style of fighting.