Gladiator footwear

[Aurelianus]

I don't want to speculate either, just to get a little correction of the terms used in here.

"manica, manicae" is the hand- or armguard. It is a following word to "manus" which means hand or a couple of soldiers.

I don't remember a word for textile leg and footguard, the metallguards are called "ocrea".

Hope that was a little help.

You are right! That is the reason why in my first post I put the word manica between two quotes (").
AFAIK there is no word for this foot protection.


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