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Pacideianus, gladiator, mid-second century. Pacideianus is called far and away the best gladiator in all history in a fragment of a poem by the Roman satirist Lucilius.

Paegniarius (plural paegniarii), a type of gladiator who engaged only in mock combat – perhaps with wooden weapons or whips. One (Secundus) boasted of living to the age of ninety-eight.