. The life of the Greeks and Romans. Fio-. oil. Fi<r. 512. legionaries, altogether abandoned for leather or woollen stockingsextending over the calf. The foot, to above the ankle, was coveredwith straps by the whole army (see Figs. 511 and 512). According to Diodorus, the Romans, previously to becomingacquainted with the Etruscans, used square shields ;from the Etruscans they adopted the common Ar-give aspis (see page 237), or the circular ironshield clypens* Besides this shield, the Romansare said to have adopted from the Samnites thefour-cornered scutum (4 feet long by 2-|- feet wide),a w
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. Fio-. oil. Fi<r. 512. legionaries, altogether abandoned for leather or woollen stockingsextending over the calf. The foot, to above the ankle, was coveredwith straps by the whole army (see Figs. 511 and 512). According to Diodorus, the Romans, previously to becomingacquainted with the Etruscans, used square shields ;from the Etruscans they adopted the common Ar-give aspis (see page 237), or the circular ironshield clypens* Besides this shield, the Romansare said to have adopted from the Samnites thefour-cornered scutum (4 feet long by 2-|- feet wide),a wooden shield covered with leather, showingthe form of a cylinder cut in half (compare ourremark about the shield of the gladiators called Sam-nites, p. 557). The upper and lower edges of the shield were, by Fig. 51; * The Eoyal Museum, Berlin (bronzes, No. 1008), possesses an Etruscan shield(found in a grave near Corneto) of gilt bronze, richly ornamented. The thinnessof the metal in this and other shields found in the graves of Cae
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