Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Secutores

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. 

SECUTO'RES. Pursuers; the name given to a particular class of gladiators, who were trained to combat with the Retiarii (Juv. viii. 210. Suet. Cal. 30. Isidor. Orig. xviii. 55.), receiving the name from the manner in which they pursued round the arena an adversary, who had made an unsuccessful cast with this net, and who, in consequence of being unprotected with defensive armour, was compelled to immediate flight until he could succeed in gathering up his net for another throw. The arms of the secutor were a sword and shield (Xiphil. lxxii. 19.), precisely as seen in the annexed illustration (Secutores/1.1), from an ancient mosaic in which several different classes of gladiators are represented. The retiarius, who is on the ground, and in a simple tunic, as described by Suetonius (l. c. retiarii tunicati), has thrown his net over the secutor, but without entangling him sufficiently in its toils to hamper the pursuit, or prevent himself from being overtaken.

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  Secutores/1.1