Talk:Murmillo

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[edit] Murmillo's opponent

The murmillo armatura does not fight the secutor (in fact, the secutor _is_ a murmillo with a different helmet, specialised for fighting the retiarius). I should know: I'm the murmillo on the current reenactment photographs (July 07). ;-) Murmillones are paired with the thraex, the hoplomachus and (very rarely) the provocator.

Muddles about gladiator armaturae are admirably resolved by having recourse to the published works of Dr Junkelmann.

[edit] Picture captions

To avoid confusion the gladiators in the reenactment photos should be labeled since only one of the gladiators is a murmillo (example: on the left is a murmillo gladiator paired with a thraex on the right side.)