05-24-2010, 04:28 AM
Fairly obviously, that garment could be simply a "sub-armalis", over which a metal cuirass fitted....naturally, the "sub-armalis" would have to conform to the shape of the cuirass worn over it, so that with both worn the wearer would lok something like the 'Prima Porta' Augustus.....
.....OR.......
Hollywood could have got it right !! :wink: :wink:
.....OR.......
Hollywood could have got it right !! :wink: :wink:
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff