rare–1. [ad. L. spoliārium, f. spolium SPOIL sb.] A place in the Roman amphitheatre where the slain gladiators were stripped.
1692. Washington, trans. Milton’s Def. People, v. Wks. 1851, VIII. 154. An Act of the Senate made upon that occasion is extant in Lampridius:… ‘let the Parricide be drawn, let him be torn in pieces in the Spoliary.’
