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Pollice Verso - Jean-Léon Gérôme (1872)
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Pollice Verso is latin for "with a turned thumb".
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Legend has it that, with the "thumbs up" being a modern expression, the Roman audience would extend the thumb in any direction to show "use the sword" and a clenched fist to say sheathe the sword/spare the opponent.