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Date:
2/1/2015 9:23:31 AM
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RE: DAMN
The standard issue torso armor for the Roman legions was the lorica segmenta. Other types of armor (mail, for instance) were too time-consuming to make during the height of the Empire. Leather was used under the lorica, but only mercs and some auxiliaries would have gone without metal band armor. The Roman army was very well-financed. The lorica could be, and was, mass produced on a gigantic scale. It was eventually replaced by mail (what we think of as chain mail) very late in the Empire.
Even legionnaires in weird outposts and garrisons wore the lorica. It was as common as dirt, just like the gladius. This has been established by archeology.
