Soldier Or Roman Legionary In Miniature Stock Image

The legionary was usually armed with two javelins, a sword, and until the time of Trajan, a dagger. For his protection he wore a helmet, an armor of rings, plates or scales and a rectangular shield that carried a metallic protection or umbo for the position of the hand. They completed their equipment a pair of sandals and a backpack or backpack.nnOne of its main attributes, since many times faced with larger armies and better equipped, was to be part of a highly disciplined body and in constant training, both to perform military maneuvers in a precise and accurate, and the famous turtle or testudo, as to work in military engineering works construction of camps, walls and fortresses and public works roads, bridges and aqueducts.