 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1808 - 390 pages
...centurion. The first cohort, which always claimed the post of honour and carried the eagle, contained 1 105 soldiers, the most approved for bravery and fidelity....uniform, consisted of a helmet with a lofty crest, a breast plate or coat of mail, greaves on their legs, and on their left arm a concave buckler, of an... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 542 pages
...Arms. meni Then* arms were uniform, and admirably adapted to the nature of their service : an open helmet, with a lofty crest ; a breast-plate, or coat of mail ; greaves on their tegs, and an ample buckler on their left arm. The buckler was of an oblong and concave figure, four... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1826 - 590 pages
...improving through every period of the republic, and was still farther improved by Julius Cesar and some of his successors. The main strength of the legion...lofty crest, a breast-plate or coat of mail, greaves ou their legs, and on their left arm a concave buckler, of an oval form, four feet in length and two... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1826 - 590 pages
...centurion. The first cohort, which always claimed the post of honor and carried the eagle, contained 1 105 soldiers, the most approved for bravery and fidelity....lofty crest, a breast-plate or coat of mail, greaves ou their legs, and on their left arm a concave buckler, of an oval form, four feet in length and two... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Australia - 1842 - 828 pages
...Their arms were uniform, iindadmtrably adapted to the nature of their service: an open hclnu't, with л lofty crest ; a breast-plate, or coat of mail ; greaves on their legs ; and an ample buckler on their left arm. lïesiJes a lighter spear, the legionary soldier grasped in hie... | |
 | Charles Macfarlane - Great Britain - 1845 - 518 pages
...in a strong triangular point of steel, eighteen inches long. For defensive armour they wore an open helmet with a lofty crest, a breast-plate or coat of mail, greaves on their legs, and a large, strong shield on their left arms. This shield or buckler, altogether unlike the small, round,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1851 - 512 pages
...in a strong triangular point of steel, eighteen inches long. For defensive armour they wore an open helmet with a lofty crest, a breast-plate or coat of mail, greaves on their legs, and a large, strong shield on their left arms. This shield or buckler, altogether unlike the small, round,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...hundred men. Their arms were uniform, and admirably adapted to the nature of their service : an open helmet, with a lofty crest ; a breastplate, or coat of mail ; greaves on their legs, and an ample buckler on their left arm. The buckler was of an oblong and concave figure, four feet in length... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1876 - 954 pages
...in a strong triangular point of steel, eighteen inches long. For defensive armour they wore an open helmet with a lofty crest, a breastplate or coat of mail, greaves on their legs, and a large stroug shield on their left arms. This shield or buckler, altogether unlike the small, round,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1906 - 480 pages
...hundred men. Their arms were uniform, and admirably adapted to the nature of their service: an open helmet, with a lofty crest; a breast-plate, or coat of mail ; greaves on their legs, and an ample buckler on their left arm. The buckler was of an oblong and concave figure, four feet in length,... | |
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Their arms were uniform, and admirably adapted to the nature of their service: an open helmet, with a lofty crest; a breast-plate, or coat of mail ; greaves on their legs, and an ample buckler on their left arm. 
