Tridents

[Dag-Erling Smorgrav]

"Dan Langille" <dan at langille.org> writes:
> A google: thumbs up death roman gladiator
> http://slate.msn.com/id/2080812/
>
> Actually it appears historians are divided on which signal meant 
> what.

Actually, historians know better than to argue about which way the
thumb should point.  The whole thing is a Hollywood fabrication.
There are references to "turning the thumb" in ancient litterature,
but noone knows which way it was turned or what it meant.

DES
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