11-25-2008, 04:45 PM
I don't have any pattern or proof, Crispvs. I've read here on RAT of baltei with plates attached, and without, so I just decided I'd put them on, since I already had most of the kitchen work surfaces covered with tools and metal dust, and some brass left over.
Now it's cleaned up, and my wife wants a belt. (Different thread for that set of questions already established--there's not a lot of info I can find that clearly indicates what kind of civilian belts existed).
I guess cingULUM would indicate a diminutive, or a "little belt" which a military belt certainly is not. I use the word only because others do, and it communicates, regardless of grammatical truth or accuracy...like segmentata, which I believe was a word coined sometime in the 20th century.
Now it's cleaned up, and my wife wants a belt. (Different thread for that set of questions already established--there's not a lot of info I can find that clearly indicates what kind of civilian belts existed).
I guess cingULUM would indicate a diminutive, or a "little belt" which a military belt certainly is not. I use the word only because others do, and it communicates, regardless of grammatical truth or accuracy...like segmentata, which I believe was a word coined sometime in the 20th century.
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.