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.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.The Oxford Latin Dictionary regards the word as of dubious origin. Some have argued that it is a Latin borrowing from Gaulish
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