Talk:Marc Antony/@comment-38148414-20190301113920/@comment-3452092-20190301124239

Historically that's how it was done. The person in charge would hold their thumb sideways, listen to the audience yelling, and then put their thumb either up or down depending. If up, the person (the one who lost) lived. If down, the person did not. Perhaps Batista got it from that.