The andabatae fought wearing a helmet with one eye-hole, herded towards the fight for the amusement of the crowd, and not part of the true gladiatorial contest.[6][7] Cicero makes a joking reference to the andabata in a letter he wrote to his friend Trebatius Testa, who was stationed in Gaul. The passage associates the andabata loosely with essedarii, chariot fighters.[8] The Oxford Latin Dictionary regards the word as of dubious origin. Some have argued that it is a Latin borrowing from Gaulish.[9]
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