Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Andabatae

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

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.