This small, broad dagger, with a kidney-shaped blade, was issued to Roman legionaries and used as a backup weapon by certain gladiators, such as the Retiarius. Though technically not a weapon per ...

Gladiators would be sent to the arena – named ... The Retiarii were armed with just a net, a long trident and a dagger, and the Samnites had a sword, an oblong shield and a helmet with a visor.

They carried a short, curved dagger called a sica, and a small shield. In the first century AD, the emperor Domitian, a fan of the murmillo gladiators, is said to have had a man thrown to the dogs ...