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In his satires, Roman poet Juvenal wrote at length about the gladiatrix that had “fle [d] from her sex.” Juvenal cast his ire toward a gladiatrix named Mevia.

Now, the one thing I’ll mention in that regard is there was a Roman writer, Juvenal, who talks about, well, if you translate it literally, the turned thumb being the signal to kill the gladiator.