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Cruppellarii

(Keltic). A word used by the Gauls to designate a class of gladiators who fought in complete armour (Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 56). See Cataphracti.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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