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Aeserninus (the Samnite gladiator)
Aeserninus
also: Aesernino Samnite, Aeserninus the Samnite
A Samnite gladiator from Aesernia, famous from a passage of Lucilius pitting him against Pacideianus; Cicero invokes the pairing as a proverbial image of an unequal, mutually destructive fight.