Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Meridiani

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. 

MERIDIA'NI. A class of light-armed gladiators who fought as a sort of interlude at midday, after the termination of the combats with wild beasts, which took place in the morning. (Orelli. Inscript. 2587. Suet. Claud. 34. Senec. Ep. 7. and 95.) The simple tunics in which the annexed figures (Meridiani/1.1) are clothed, and the absence of all body armour, renders it extremely probable that they afford an example of the meridiani; the more so as they are copied from a mosaic, which represents several other classes of gladiators in the characteristic suits of armour belonging to each class.

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  Meridiani/1.1