06-23-2013, 04:10 AM
@Sulla:
Apologies for just jumping in, but I don't think that anyone is invoking any sort of absolutism in regards to their approach to your question. There is no reason to believe that legionaries painted their segmentatas in the same way that there is no reason to believe that that they wore pink feather boas. Strictly speaking, it's possible. Practically speaking, we can provisionally assume it to not be true.
If one day, we stumble upon some evidence that they painted their armor, the evidence itself will likely be interpreted and discussed, but I doubt that any reasonable person will dig in and deny the evidence based on their offended sense of absolutely held ideas of how segmentatas should look.
Apologies for just jumping in, but I don't think that anyone is invoking any sort of absolutism in regards to their approach to your question. There is no reason to believe that legionaries painted their segmentatas in the same way that there is no reason to believe that that they wore pink feather boas. Strictly speaking, it's possible. Practically speaking, we can provisionally assume it to not be true.
If one day, we stumble upon some evidence that they painted their armor, the evidence itself will likely be interpreted and discussed, but I doubt that any reasonable person will dig in and deny the evidence based on their offended sense of absolutely held ideas of how segmentatas should look.
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