Bronze Lorica Segmentata

[Tarbicus]

Equally so, nobody from the Republic could still have been alive at the time of Trajan's Column being built, and the Year of the Four Emperors was up to forty years earlier. There were no legions based in Italy, while we have no idea how much the Praetorians would mingle with the populace while wearing armour, in and around a city with a population of a million people where it was blasphemy to wear armour except under exceptional ceremonial circumstances. This is the Campus Martius by 300 AD.