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Bacchius

and Bithus. Two celebrated gladiators, of equal age and strength, who, after conquering many competitors, engaged with each other, and died of mutual wounds; whence the proverb to express equality, Bithus contra Bacchium. See Horace, Epist. i. 7, 20.

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