Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pegmares

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. 

PEGMA'RES. Gladiators introduced into the amphitheatre upon a pegma, which was then made to undergo some sudden change, such as turning into a den filled with wild beasts, amongst which they would be precipitated. (Suet. Cal. 26.) But as the word only occurs in this passage, and the reading is regarded as doubtful, the explanation of it can only be received as a conjectural probability.