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| Keywords: Astyanax vs Kalendio mosaic.jpg Mosaic at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid showing a retiarius net-fighter named Kalendio fighting a secutor named Astyanax In the bottom image the secutor is covered in the retiariuss net but doesn't seem to be hindered In the later image Kalendio is on the ground wounded and raises his dagger to surrender The arena employees await his fate from the editor not pictured The inscription above it shows the sign for null and the name of Kalendio implying that he was killed Image taken from http //penelope uchicago edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/gladiators/retiarius html anchor325443 this website 4th century AD PD-old Image Astyanax vs Kalendio 2 jpg Mosaico de Astyanax M A N nº inv 3600 Retiarii Secutores Ancient Roman fashion Mosaics of gladiators Rudarii Anceint Roman inscriptions in Spain | ||||
