Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Provocatores

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. 

PROVOCATO'RES. A class of gladiators respecting whom nothing definite is known, excepting that they usually engaged with the Samnites. Cic. Sext. 64. Inscript. ap. Orelli, 2566.