[A pause of consideration; but that said.]

There has been a gladiator with a missing hand. His dotore tied a glaive to his stump, trained him without mercy for a year.

[So, you know. It's possible to live with a missing hand, if that's his worry. Definitely if cutting off a hand would have freed him-

-no, Gannicus wasn't desperate for freedom, not that desperate, anyway. He was perfectly content to be a gladiator. But still.]