Scissor (gladiator)

[3][1] The name, from the verb scindere ("to cut") means cleaver, carver, or slasher.

[6][1][7][4] Historian Marcus Junkelmann identified what he termed a scissor in a relief in the late 1980s.

[1][3] The scissores may have evolved from the secutor due to the similarity in armor, helmet, and gladius, as well as being "anti-retiarius.

[1][8][3] This semicircular blade was attached to a steel tube that spanned the arm.

It served as a shield in addition to a weapon and a handle inside provided increased mobility.