. The life of the Greeks and Romans. chain-armour (lorica squamata and hamata) was (owingto its high price) worn in older times only by the hastati andprincipes; at a later period, also, it remained the exclusive dressof officers and of certain corps of the army (Fig. 512). The Anti-quarium of the Hoyal Museum, Berlin (bronzes, ~No. 1025), pos-sesses a fragment of a chain-and-scale armour, found near Borne,in which the scales are put on the meshes of the fine iron mail. Generals, and the emperor himself, wore undoubtedly themore costly Greek chalkochiton, which, perhaps in an idealisedform, ap
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. chain-armour (lorica squamata and hamata) was (owingto its high price) worn in older times only by the hastati andprincipes; at a later period, also, it remained the exclusive dressof officers and of certain corps of the army (Fig. 512). The Anti-quarium of the Hoyal Museum, Berlin (bronzes, ~No. 1025), pos-sesses a fragment of a chain-and-scale armour, found near Borne,in which the scales are put on the meshes of the fine iron mail. Generals, and the emperor himself, wore undoubtedly themore costly Greek chalkochiton, which, perhaps in an idealisedform, appears on monuments frequently adorned with inlaid orchiselled ornaments (see, for instance, the military statue ofCaligula, Fig. 510, c). The marble statuette of Augustus, foundin 1863 in the villa of the Ca?sars, nine miglie from the Porta delPopolo, is most remarkable, both by the chiselled decoration of thearmour and by the perfect colours in which the marble is painted. Greaves (pcrea) of bronze are found in many of our Fia\ 510. 5?o THE SHIELD. They were worn in the time of the Republic by the hastati,principes, and triarii, on the right leg, unprotected by theshield; the cavalry in Polybiuss time wore greaves made ofleather. In imperial times metal greaves were, at least by the
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