Leather Cuirass Lorica Musculata, I used to think no way but

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At least one form of flexible leather armour is relatively well documented, the buff leather coats of the 17th c. AD, used in a time of very spiky swords and nasty lead balls often without metal breast plates, although the debatable protection was well known.

Means nothing for the Romans but we should be careful with dogmatic opinions.

Also, I wonder why Paullus Scipio did not mention it :wink: , at least two ancient lexica tell about leather armour of the Greeks (which was probably of some flexibility).