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The Tenth Legion prepares to attack.
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Most of the legionaries wear the lorica segmentata. Two wear hamata (mail). Gaius Germanicus Magnus wears a muscled cuirass.
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Shields varied from a Repiblican style with rounded corners to the rectangular scutum of Imperial times and auxiliary (right).
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Pila iace! -- Throw Pilum!
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Parati! Oppugnare! -- Ready! Charge! (No, they did not have an exclamation point in Latin - that came later!)
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Whew! - those Barbarians remove their dead before we even get a chance to strip them! I had my eye on a nice gladius but...
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The nice little duck pond at the Cheese Factory helped make this a nice setting for our Roman reenactment event.
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These sandals are very good copies of the original First Century caligae worn by the legions compared to most from suppliers.
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It soon became time for all of us to hone our skills in the gladius training "pit".
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Defende inferius -- Attack low!
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Defende altus - Attack high!
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So what's the matter, Gaius Germanicus? The Optio won't trust you with the real thing?? Uh, just kidding!
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The training shield and sword weighed twice as much as the regulation issue equipment in order to build strength and agility.
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You wouldn't think a stick like that could fight back, but a clumsy move might earn the recruit a sharp blow by the Optio!
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Gaius Germanicus looks on as one of the new recruits undergoes training.
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MMarcus Scipio gets in a good thrust from above. Any Barbarian to survive an encounter with him is lucky indeed!
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Is everybody out to get our Optio Antony Lucius today?
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This small round shield used in training is called a parma. Often, a large scutum made of wicker was used for this purpose.
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Ellison Dunlap is wearing the lorica segmentata in this photo. I believe Ken feragen is wearing the hamata.
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Ellison Dunlap, Patti Ballard, Ken Feragen, and Anthony Dunlap take the sacramentum under the fly tent.
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