Type of Roman gladiator
The scissor (pl. scissores) was a type of Roman gladiator. Very little is known about them and they were not mentioned after the first century BCE. The name, from the verb "scindere" ("to cut") means cleaver, carver, or slasher. Historian Marcus Junkelmann identified what he termed a scissor in a relief in the late 1980s. The figure, however, has also been identified as an "arbelas" by other historians. It is possible that the scissores went extinct or were later reclassed as "arbelai". The scissores may have evolved from the "secutor" due to the similarity in armor, helmet, and "gladius", as well as being "anti-retiarius."
Scissores wore a full-face helmet similar to that of the "hoplomachi" or the "secutores", and wore heavy armor. They held a "gladius" in one hand and a "single-edged curved blade," similar to a mezzaluna or an "arbelas" blade, on his forearm. 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.
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