Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Andabatae

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

ANDAB'ATAE. A class of gladiators who fought hoodwinked, or with a close helmet which had no opening in the vizor to see through. (Hieron. adv. Jov. i. 36. Cic. Fam. vii. 10, but here the reading is doubtful.) According to Turnebus (Advers. ii. 10.) they exhibited in the Circus after the races in a sort of ludicrous contest, both the driver and Andabata being blindfolded.