Roman Martial Arts?

[Anonymous Hoplite]

I'll give you some online, to save time. I don't know how you feel about Wikipedia, but this stuff is all there, for starters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caestus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_Boxing

I will have to stand corrected... There does appear to be a form of "tap out" where one raises a finger to submit.

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/cc304c3/B ... oxing.html
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Pugilism
http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=WHKv ... 78Ig&hl=en
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g ... _n19124932
http://www.answers.com/topic/boxing-1
http://antiqueclippings.blogspot.com/20 ... fight.html

I looked online for a source for caedere meaning "to strike", but found the majority of online translations and dictionaries list caedere as "slaughter, killing, carnage". I will have to dig out a book and get back to you on that.