I believe the answer the answer is Equites. Latin is a language, tragedy is a form of art pieces, and gladiators were common people who fought to entertain crowds.
One of those bands, camped on the Guadalupe River below Victoria, was attacked by Texans in 1840 in retaliation for Karankawa raids on area settlers. Many Indians were killed in the attack, and the survivors fled down the coast where they settled about fifty miles southwest of Corpus Christi.
