Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Dimachaeri

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. 

DIMACHAE'RI (διμάχαιροι). A class of gladiators, who are supposed to have fought with two swords each; but the fact is only an inference, collected from their name. Inscript. ap. Mur. 613. 3. Orelli, Inscript. 2584.