Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Essedarius

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

ESSEDA'RIUS. A British, Gaulish, and Belgic warrior, who drove and fought from a war car (essedum) in the manner described by Caesar (B. G. iv. 33.). Cic. Fam. vii. 6.

2. A captive from either of the above nations, who was made to exhibit his national mode of fighting, from the essedum, as a gladiator in the Roman amphitheatre. Suet. Cal. 35. Claud. 21.