Ludus Dacicus

The Ludus Dacicus or The Dacian Gladiatorial Training School was one of the four gladiator training schools (ludi) in Ancient Rome.

It was located east of the Colosseum, on the slopes of the Caelian Hill.

[1] Dacian prisoners were taken many times by the Romans and very often they were forced to fight in the arenas.

Dio Cassius mentions that around 31 BC, after the Battle of Actium, where the Dacian king Dicomes provided help to Mark Antony,[2] Augustus took the Dacian prisoners and made them fight in the arena as gladiators, against Suebi captives, a spectacle that lasted many days with no interruption.

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Thraex gladiator with wooden sica , a weapon known to have been used by the Dacians along with the falx .