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Some allowance must be made for the hardening influence of his profession; familiarity with murder makes him callous. When he executes a moorgee he does it in the way of sport, and sits, like an ancient Roman, verso pollice, enjoying the spectacle of its dying struggles.
"And yet," he muttered, "it is an amazing business: the sand the velarium the outstretched arm and hand pollice compresso the exact gesture of the gladiatorial shows " "Are you telling me, pray, of gladiatorial shows under the Eastern Empire?" I demanded scornfully. "Certainly not: and that," he mused, "only makes it the more amazing."
Laeto nata solo, dextrâ, rosa, pollice carpta; Unde tibi solito pulcrior, unde color? Num te iterum tinxit Venus? an potius tibi tantum Borgia purpureo praebuit ore decus? Ad Bembum de Lucretia. Si mutatur in X. C. tertia nominis hujus Littera lux fiet, quod modo luc fuerat. Retia subsequitur, cui tu hæc subiunge paraque, Subscribens lux hæc retia, Bembe, parat.
It was not enough for them to fight and to die bravely, but cheerfully too; insomuch that they were hissed and cursed if they made any hesitation about receiving their death. The very girls themselves set them on: "Consurgit ad ictus, Et, quoties victor ferrum jugulo inserit, illa Delicias ait esse suas, pectusque jacentis Virgo modesta jubet converso pollice rumpi."
It was at Rome a signification of favour to depress and turn in the thumbs: "Fautor utroque tuum laudabit pollice ludum:" and of disfavour to elevate and thrust them outward: "Converso pollice vulgi, Quemlibet occidunt populariter." The Romans exempted from war all such as were maimed in the thumbs, as having no more sufficient strength to hold their weapons.
Moreover, it is very doubtful whether we should long enjoy that trade by the north-east if there were any such passage that way, the commodities thereof once known to the Muscovite, what privilege soever he hath granted, seeing pollice with the maze of excessive gain, to the enriching of himself and all his dominions, would persuade him to presume the same, having so great opportunity, to distribute the commodities of those countries by the Naruc.
All the inconveniences in the world are not considerable enough that a man should die to evade them; and, besides, there being so many, so sudden and unexpected changes in human things, it is hard rightly to judge when we are at the end of our hope: "Sperat et in saeva victus gladiator arena, Sit licet infesto pollice turba minax." Pentadius, De Spe, ap.
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