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The dimachaeri (singular: dimachaerus) were a type of Roman gladiator that fought with two swords. The name is the Latin-language borrowing of the Greek word διμάχαιρος meaning "bearing two knives" (di- dual + machairi knife).

The dimachaeri were popular during the 2nd-4th centuries AD, and were probably considered to be "insidious" by many Romans.^[1] Both written and pictorial records on dimachaeri are scant and rather indeterminate.^[2] Thus, an inscription from Lyon, France, mentions such a type of gladiator, here spelled dymacherus.^[3]

^ Nossov, Konstantin (2009). Gladiator: Rome's bloody spectacle. Osprey. p. 208. ISBN 1-84603-472-8.
^ The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome: Gladiators and Caesars, ed. by Eckart Köhne and Cornelia Ewigleben (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2000), p. 63. ISBN 978-0-520-22798-9
^ CIL XIII, 1997

[nossov-1] Nossov, Konstantin (2009). Gladiator: Rome's bloody spectacle. Osprey. p. 208. ISBN 1-84603-472-8.

[2] The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome: Gladiators and Caesars, ed. by Eckart Köhne and Cornelia Ewigleben (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2000), p. 63. ISBN 978-0-520-22798-9

[3] CIL XIII, 1997

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