Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Bestiarii

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（θηριομάχοι). Persons who fought with wild beasts in the games of the Circus. They were either persons who fought for the sake of pay, and who were allowed to bear arms; or criminals, who were usually permitted to have no means of defence against the wild beasts. The bestiarii who fought with the beasts for the sake of pay, and of whom there were great numbers in the latter days of the Republic and under the Empire, are always spoken of as distinct from the gladiators, who fought with one another. It appears that there were schools in Rome in which persons were trained to fight with wild beasts (scholae bestiarum or bestiariorum). See Gladiatores.

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

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