Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Catervarii

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. 

CATERVA'RII. Gladiators and combatants who fought in companies or bodies, and not in single pairs, which was the more usual manner. Suet. Aug. 45. Compare Cal. 30. gregatim dimicantes.