noun
pinnĭrăpus
Meaning
- a peak-snatcher
pinnĭrăpus, i, m. 1. pinna-rapio,
I. a peak-snatcher, i. e. a gladiator, Juv. 3, 158; cf.: pinnirapos autem dicit, lanistas ex habitu gladiatorum, quia post mortem retiarii pinnam, id est manicam rapit, ut ostendat populo se vicisse, Vet. Schol. ad loc.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
pinnirapus ī, m
1 pinna+RAP-, a crestsnatcher, gladiator (who strove to snatch the adversary's crest as a trophy), Iu.