Scissor (gladiator type)
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The Scissor was a type of Roman
gladiator
about which almost nothing beyond the name, meaning "cutter, cleaver, render" (from scindo, cf. "schism") is known.
has propagated an idea, based on an unlabeled, unclear image that he decided might be a scissor, that this type of gladiator fought using a weapon consisting of a hardened steel tube that encased the gladiator's entire forearm, with the hand end capped off and a semicircular blade attached to it. A handle inside the tube might have allowed the gladiator to maintain control in the heat of battle.
This weapon might have been both deadly and versatile; the gladiator could use his protected arm to block his opponent's blows and quickly counterattack, the shape of the blade being such that even slight contact could cause a serious wound.
Ancient Rome
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Gladiator
A gladiator was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals. Some gladiators were volunteers who risked their legal and social standing and their lives by appearing in the...
about which almost nothing beyond the name, meaning "cutter, cleaver, render" (from scindo, cf. "schism") is known.
The Scissor in popular culture
German historian and experimental archeologist Marcus JunkelmannMarcus Junkelmann
Marcus Junkelmann is a German historian and experimental archeologist.-Life and work:1971 Junkelmann started to study history at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and in 1979 he received a PhD for a thesis on the military achievements of Maximilian II...
has propagated an idea, based on an unlabeled, unclear image that he decided might be a scissor, that this type of gladiator fought using a weapon consisting of a hardened steel tube that encased the gladiator's entire forearm, with the hand end capped off and a semicircular blade attached to it. A handle inside the tube might have allowed the gladiator to maintain control in the heat of battle.
This weapon might have been both deadly and versatile; the gladiator could use his protected arm to block his opponent's blows and quickly counterattack, the shape of the blade being such that even slight contact could cause a serious wound.