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Entries Tagged as 'retiarius'

The Washington Generals of Rome

July 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Perhaps due to our early exposure to the Mel Brooks versus Gregory Hines fight scene in History of the World: Part I, we always figured that trident-and-net gladiators—known in Latin as retiarii—were decidedly badass. For years, in fact, we’ve always claimed that, should we ever suddenly be cast back to the year 100 A.D. and […]

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