AndabataeThe andabatae fought wearing a helmet with no eye-holes, herded towards the fight for the amusement of the crowd, and not part of the true gladiatorial contest.Cicero makes a joking reference to the andabata in a letter he wrote to his friend Trebatius Testa, who was stationed in Gaul. The passage associates the andabata loosely with essedarii, chariot fighters. The Oxford Latin Dictionary regards the word as of dubious origin. Some h
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Arbelas The arbelas is mentioned in only one source, a list of gladiators of the lanista C. Salvius Capito in the 1st century BC. The name arbelas comes from the arbelai, a crescent shaped knife that shoemakers used to cut leather. There are six known images that show a crescent shaped knife and they are only fighting against retiarii or against each other. It may be the same as thescissor.
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Bestiarius The bestiarius was a beast-fighter, so most of the time they would fight lions or bears (leo/ursi) See also Damnatio ad bestias.
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