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Sagitarius: fought with a bow and arrow.

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Secutos: Had a shield, sword, heavy helmet, and armour on one arm.

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Retiaritus: Fought with a net, brandishing either a trident or a dagger.

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Myrmillo: Wore a fish-like helmet and had an oblong shield and a sword.

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The Retiarius fought with the heavily armed gladiators such as the Mirmillones. His fighting technique was evasive and his tactics were to entangle his opponent with his net and then skewer him as a fisherman with his trident. A heavily armed gladiator like a Myrmillo (Murmillo) often fought with a Retiarius.

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Calisthenics or body weight exercises were a huge part of gladiator training.

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A secutor was a class of gladiator in ancient Rome. Thought to have originated around 50 AD, the secutor was armed similarly to the Murmillo gladiator and like the Murmillo, was protected by a heavy shield. A secutor usually carried a short sword, a gladius, or a dagger.

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The murmillo was a type of gladiator during the Roman Imperial age. The murmillo-class gladiator was adopted in the early Imperial period to replace the earlier Gallus, named after the warriors of Gaul.

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A retiarius was a Roman gladiator who fought with equipment styled on that of a fisherman: a weighted net, a three-pointed trident, and a dagger. The retiarius was lightly armoured, wearing an arm guard and a shoulder guard.

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Audiences in the Roman Republic watched gladiators fight for entertainment.

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In ancient Rome, gladiator fights occurred as a form of entertainment.

Gladiators would fight to the death, sometimes accompanied by animals, to entertain the masses of Rome.

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A gladiator was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals.