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cestus
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Cestus
A
cestus
or
caestus
is an ancient battle
glove
, sometimes used in
pankration
. They were worn like today's
boxing gloves
, but were made with leather strips and sometimes filled with iron plates or fitted with blades or spikes, and used as
weapons
.
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