among the ancient Romans, a sort of gladiator, hired to fight in the amphitheatre against beasts; thence also denominated bestiarius.

The confectores were thus called a conficiendi bestias, from their dispatching and killing beasts.

The Greeks called them μαρεβάσαι, q. d. daring, rafó, desperate; whence the Latins borrowed the appellations parabolan and parabolarii. The Christians were sometimes condemned to this sort of combat.