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The Colchester Vase depicts a real battle between a secutor and retiarius gladiator For hundreds of years, bloodthirsty spectators would gather across the Roman Empire to watch gladiators fighting ...

Graffiti discovered in the ancient city of Aphrodisias shows gladiator fights between a retiarius (a gladiator armed with a trident and net) and a secutor (gladiator equipped with a sword and shield).

The Romans only pitted the Retiarius armed with throwing net and trident against a Secutor with a sword in the gladiatorial arena because it made a good spectacle, with the Retiarius a definite ...

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I MUST adhere to my decision not to play the part of Secutor any further to a glacial Retiarius in the arena of NATURE. If his net be strong enough to carry the Upper Pleiocene and the Pleistocene ...

You would not know it from the Russell Crowe movie, but the Romans used to have a kind of gladiator called a retiarius. This fellow fought with a trident in one hand, and a weighted net in the other.