04-09-2013, 06:39 PM
Gaius Julius Caesar wrote:
You dont need the belt to fight....especially if the sword is on a baldric. I assume you refer to the image where they have only baldrics?
You are right, I had not noticed that. So only one belt, for the pugio (No disrespect, but your argument of hastily armed legionaries depicted by the artist of the metopes conjures up an Asterix and Obelix meet Monty Python vision of a legionary ready to slay a Dacian, and then ... "Hold it right there! Absolutely perfect! Could you move a bit more to the ... perfect! (tchak, tchak, tchak, tchak, tchak) OK, one metope ready! What do you think? Looks good! Well, I think youw pwotagonists awe anatomically incowwect and wathew ugly. And you awe not even weawing youw nob-guawd, how obscene! Shut up Dacian, you're dead! I say, am I? What wotten luck!")
You dont need the belt to fight....especially if the sword is on a baldric. I assume you refer to the image where they have only baldrics?
You are right, I had not noticed that. So only one belt, for the pugio (No disrespect, but your argument of hastily armed legionaries depicted by the artist of the metopes conjures up an Asterix and Obelix meet Monty Python vision of a legionary ready to slay a Dacian, and then ... "Hold it right there! Absolutely perfect! Could you move a bit more to the ... perfect! (tchak, tchak, tchak, tchak, tchak) OK, one metope ready! What do you think? Looks good! Well, I think youw pwotagonists awe anatomically incowwect and wathew ugly. And you awe not even weawing youw nob-guawd, how obscene! Shut up Dacian, you're dead! I say, am I? What wotten luck!")
