For the gladiator scissor, see CIL 9.466, 26-7 = ILS 5083a = EAOR 3.68 = 1.4 (album of a gladiatorial familia from Venusia). A possible scissor is shown in the relief of the heavily armored gladiator Myron, of unknown provenance and now in the Louvre, whose left arm is covered in a device that ends in a crescent-shaped blade, clearly a very specialized piece of equipment. Robert (Gladiateurs, 235-6 (no. 299]), comparing this scene with a relief from Tomis that shows the same piece of equipment discarded on the sand, reasonably suggests that it was designed to slice through a retiarius’ net (the adversary in the Tomis relief is a retiarius). But it has recently been argued — on the basis of a relief from Satala in Lydia, two reliefs and accompanying inscriptions from Hierapolis in Phrygia, and a comment in Artemidorus (2.32) — that such gladiators were termed arbelai (after a semi-circular cobbler’s knife), at least in the Greek East; and the Hierapolis reliefs show them fighting each other, not retiarii; see M. Carter, “Artemidorus and the Arbelas Gladiator,” ZPE134 (2001), 109-15; Ritti and Yilmaz, Gladiatori e venationes, 469—79 (nos. 6 and 7). But there is no reason to expect that the armaments, the terminology, or the formats of gladiatorial bouts were perfectly consistent across the empire, so that gladiators of this type could surely be dubbed both scissores and arbelai and appear in diverse pairings.