Look up mirmillo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The murmillo (also sometimes spelled "mirmillo", "myrmillo", or "mirmillones" pl. murmillones) was...

type, which by Tacitus' own time had been developed and renamed as the murmillo. The dimachaerus (Greek διμάχαιρος, "bearing two knives") used a sword...

British Museum Press, 2000. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thraces. Fresco of a murmillo and Thracian fighting, found in Pompei in 2019 v t e v t e...

follow, come or go after") was armed similarly to the murmillo gladiator and like the murmillo, was protected by a heavy shield. A secutor usually carried...

some sort, possibly usually as a woman, and matched against a secutor or murmillo in a mock gladiatorial exhibition." Despite their low status, some retiarii...

Republic. Eventually, other gladiator types joined the roster, such as the murmillo and the Thraex. Under the reign of Emperor Augustus, Samnium became an...

probably the most popular type, was renamed secutor and the Gaul renamed murmillo, once these former enemies had been conquered then absorbed into Rome's...

spectators at the Colosseum, including the Vestals, to the victorious murmillo, while the defeated retiarius raises two fingers to plead for mercy. The...

marten") was a Roman soldier's helmet. Some gladiators, specifically murmillo (myrmillo), also wore bronze galeae with face masks and decorations, often...

weapons were the spear and a short sword. He was often pitted against the murmillo (armed like a Roman soldier), perhaps as a re-enactment of Rome's wars...