"Unique Roman military punishment - help with reference" Topic
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| Korvessa | 03 Dec 2017 11:04 a.m. PST |
I have a vague recollection of an incident – probably during Republic – where a unit was punished by not being able to wear their military belt. Anybody know more about this?
Tx |
| GurKhan | 03 Dec 2017 11:16 a.m. PST |
"Sulla ordered a cohort and its centurions, though whose defences the enemy had broken, to stand continuously at headquarters, wearing helmets and without belts (galeatos et discinctos)."
Frontinus, Stratgems IV.1.27 |
| Korvessa | 03 Dec 2017 11:21 a.m. PST |
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| kodiakblair | 03 Dec 2017 11:43 a.m. PST |
Something rings a bell about Roman males wearing a belt with a tunic but females didn't so the lads had the added insult of dressing like women. |
Winston Smith  | 03 Dec 2017 12:11 p.m. PST |
The belt also took some of the weight of the chainmail armor off the shoulders and placed it on the hips.
Now, all the weight would be on the shoulders, as well as the weight of the helmet.
It's a physical punishment. |
| bsrlee | 03 Dec 2017 6:41 p.m. PST |
Wearing a belt was a symbol of a mature male citizen in all the Latin societies that we know of. So they were being made to parade as less than men or citizens. |
 Parzival | 04 Dec 2017 8:41 a.m. PST |
Given some of the teens I work with, today it would be seen as having "street cred." :-/ |
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