LUDUS MATUTINUS
a training school for gladiators in
Region III (Not. Cur.;
CIL vi. 352, 9470 (?), 10172, 10173, xiv. 2922;
IG xiv. 1330), probably near
the Colosseum on the via Labicana. This ludus may possibly have been
called matutinus because it was established for the training of hunters to
fight in the venationes that took place in the morning (Ov.
Met. xi. 26;
Mart. viii. 67;
xiii. 95; Sen.
Ep. xii. 7. 3; Suet. Claud. 34), but this
is by no means certain (cf. Pr. Reg. 121; Friedlander, Sittengeschichte
1110. 65; HJ 299). It was probably one of the four ludi established by
Domitian (Chron. 146).