linothorax and other white cuirases

[Renatus]

The bronze and iron cuirasses if were the unique ones, would not explain the "Linteam Lorica" mention by Suetonius, about Galva.

What Suetonius tells us is that Galba put on a linen lorica but conceded that it would afford him little protection against so many swords. The point, surely, is that it was an unusual thing to do, that he did not put on the cuirass that he would normally have worn.