The other one was better, but this continues the same theme. secutor ❋ Unknown (2008)
As the trident with which Nepimus is armed is not a weapon calculated to inflict speedy and certain death, the secutor Hyppolitus performs this last office to his comrade. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Myrmillo, were usual antagonists, and had their name from the secutor following the retiarius, who eluded the pursuit until he found an opportunity to throw his net to advantage. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
If he missed the first throw, he was obliged to fly from the pursuit of the secutor till he had prepared his net for a second cast. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1906)
The secutor was armed with a helmet, sword, and buckler; his naked antagonist had only a large net and a trident; with the one he endeavored to entangle, with the other to despatch his enemy. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1906)
The name of Paulus, a celebrated secutor, was the only one which delighted his ear. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1906)
He always fought as a _secutor_ or _murmillo_, or in the armor proper to a ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)
No one not reckless or drunk ever bet even money on an ordinary _secutor_. ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)
Besides fighting as a _secutor_ against a _retiarius_ Palus in the same accoutrements fought with men similarly equipped, or accoutred as Greeks, ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)
The _secutor_, always the bigger man and fully armed and armored, appears invincible against the little manikin of a ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)
It is exciting because the _retiarius_, nude except for one small shoulder-guard and a scanty apron, appears to have no chance whatever against the _secutor_ with his big vizored helmet, his complete body-armor, his kilt of lapped leather straps plated with polished metal scales, his greaves or leg-rings or boots and his full-length, curved shield and Spanish sword. ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)
Palus behaved unlike any other _secutor_ ever seen in the arena. ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)
No other secutor ever killed more than one _retiarius_ without a good rest between the first fight and the second. ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)
I first saw him fight as a _secutor_, matched against a _retiarius_. ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)
A quick inflection of body saved the gladiator from the deadly snare; he uttered a sharp cry of joy and rage and rushed upon Niger; but Niger had already drawn in his net, thrown it across his shoulders, and now fled around the lists with a swiftness which the _secutor_ [6] in vain endeavored to equal. ❋ Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (1864)
The gladiators were named from their peculiar arms; the most common were the _retiarius_, who endeavoured to hamper his antagonist with a net; and his opponent the _secutor_. ❋ Oliver Goldsmith (1752)
_secutor_, Murmex in silvered armor, Palus all in gold or gilded arms. ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)
_retiarius_ is confident of victory and the _secutor_ wary and cautious or even afraid. ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)
_secutor_, the _lanista_ would have in charge not one _retiarius_, but ten, or even a dozen. ❋ Edward Lucas White (1900)
To one writer she is a “princess” whose husband is held by Kussai of Tigre; Stanley and another name the captor as King Theodore himself; Holland and Hozier’s official account agrees with Flashman that the per secutor is Gobayzy of Lasta. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (2005)
