sphaerŏmăchĭa — Lewis & Short
a kind of boxing in which the combatants had iron balls strapped to their hands
The corpus record — Latin
sphaeromachia
sphaeromachia · f
a kind of boxing in which the combatants had iron balls strapped to their hands
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- Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
- Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
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