Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Mirmillones

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. 

MIRMILLO'NES. A class of gladiators usually matched in combat with the Thraces, or the retiarii. They wore the Gallic helmet, with the image of a fish for the crest, as exhibited by the annexed figure (Mirmillones/1.1) from a tomb near the gate of Herculaneum, at Pompei. They are believed to have been originally Gauls; but the derivation, as well as the allusive meaning of the name, is very doubtful. Cic. Phil. vi. 5. Suet. Dom. 10. Juv. viii. 20. Festus s. Retiarius.

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