10-24-2006, 09:10 AM
Two other things remain to be said, I believe:
1) Ancient soldiers had very probably very calloused hands, and swollen too, like any hand-digger or farm worker has, for example. That changes in some way the ergonomic behaviour of the grip. That should make more understandable so thin grips and the lack of any leather or thin ropes on the handle.
2) Maybe the pugiones were also used like short range throwing weapons, to be tossed by left or right hand indifferently, and the two knobs on the grip could help to find the right balance in the hand.
Valete,
1) Ancient soldiers had very probably very calloused hands, and swollen too, like any hand-digger or farm worker has, for example. That changes in some way the ergonomic behaviour of the grip. That should make more understandable so thin grips and the lack of any leather or thin ropes on the handle.
2) Maybe the pugiones were also used like short range throwing weapons, to be tossed by left or right hand indifferently, and the two knobs on the grip could help to find the right balance in the hand.
Valete,
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
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... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
