A secutor (pl. secutores) was a class of gladiator in ancient Rome. Thought to have originated around 50 AD, the secutor ("follower" or "chaser", from...
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List of Roman gladiator types (section Secutor)
to any gladiator who used a small shield (parmularius). A murmillo or a secutor would be a scutarius; the additional protection or advantage afforded by...
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or footwear. The retiarius was routinely pitted against a heavily armed secutor. The net-fighter made up for his lack of protective gear by using his speed...
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Augustan legislation, the Samnite type was renamed Secutor ("chaser", or "pursuer"). The secutor was equipped with a long, heavy "large" shield called...
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Deveximentum (redirect from Secutor (genus))
and the western Pacific Ocean. The genus had been once named as Secutor but Secutor was coined by Gistel in 1848 with Forsskål’s Scombrops equula as...
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likely forced into slavery and then into a gladiator school. He fought as a secutor, a class of gladiators in Rome. His common opponents were thus retiarii...
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replaced by similarly armed gladiators, including the hoplomachus and the secutor. The Samnite was named for the people of Samnium, an area in the southern...
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Centromyrmex secutor is a species of ant in the family Formicidae. "Centromyrmex secutor". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-23. "AntWeb". California Academy of...
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Deveximentum hanedai (redirect from Secutor hanedai)
R.; Matsuura, K.; et al. (2017) [errata version of 2010 assessment]. "Secutor hanedai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T154802A115237270...
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and that Samnites were called hoplomachi when battling a Thracian, and a secutor when matched against retiarii. The oplomachi were a designation or possibly...
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