Secutor
The secutor ( lat. "Pursuer") was a heavily armed Roman gladiator . He was also known as Contraretiarius (Latin for "anti-net fighter") or Contrarete (Latin for "anti net") because he specialized in fighting the retiarius armed with a net . The secutor was a variant of the Murmillo .
Equipment and armament
The Secutor was one of the heavily armed gladiators. He was armed with a straight-bladed short sword, the gladius . As protection, he wore a helmet, the shield of the Roman legionaries ( Scutum ), hand and arm protection on the right arm ( Manica ) and a bandage with a leg brace ( Ocrea ) attached below the left knee . The helmet covered the whole face and was provided with small, round viewing slits that significantly impaired the field of vision. The secutor was dressed in a loincloth ( subligaculum ) and a belt ( balteus or cingulum ). His equipment and armament were thus, apart from the different helmet, that of the Murmillo . The peculiarity of the helmet was that it was usually kept very smooth in order not to offer the retiarius network any attack surface.
opponent
The secutor specialized in the retiarius as an opponent.
See also
literature
- Marcus Junkelmann : Playing with death. This is how Rome's gladiators fought . Mainz am Rhein, 2000 ( Ancient World , special issue; Zabern's illustrated books on archeology ), ISBN 3-8053-2563-0 .
- Fik Meijer: Gladiators. The game of life and death . Artemis and Winkler, Düsseldorf et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7608-2303-3 .
