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retiarius

retiarius · m

one who fights with a net

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Where it lives

Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3 · 0.38/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

rētĭārĭus — Lewis & Short

rētĭārĭus, ii, m.rete,

I one who fights with a net, a net-fighter (a kind of gladiator, who endeavored to hold his adversary by throwing a net over his head), Quint. 6, 3, 61; Suet. Calig. 30; id. Claud. 34; Val. Max. 1, 7, 8; Inscr. Orell. 2566; 2578; 4273; cf. Juv. 8, 204 sqq.; v. Dict. of Antiq.; and cf. mirmillo.—Prov.: contra retiarium ferula, to fight with feeble weapons against one well equipped, or, as we might say, to parry a lance with a bodkin, Mart. 2 praef.

In the wild

retiarium Martial, Epigrammata 2.pr.9
retiarius Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1.7.8
retiario Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1.7.8
retiariis Historia Augusta, Commodus Antoninus 12
retiarios Suetonius, Divus Claudius 34.1
retiarium Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 6.3.61

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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