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IR80704L
LEATHER MUSCLE ARMOR
List Price: $219.99
Our Price: $169.99
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This two piece body armour set is constructed of black hardened leather with adjustable leather straps. Designed for adults with chest sizes up to 46", one size fits most. Replicates an original. Perfect piece for the reenactor due to its lighter weight as opposed to it's metal counterpart.

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LEATHER MUSCLE ARMORImage of IR80704L Roman Leather Muscle Armor (IR80704L)
KEY FEATURES: * Black hardened leather * Replicates an original * Perfect piece for the collector or reenactor.

PRODUCT HISTORY HERE
The pugio was a small dagger used by Roman soldiers as a sidearm. It seems likely that the pugio was intended as an auxiliary or backup weapon, but it found many uses, especially as a utility knife. The Roman Pugio was often highly decorated and were clearly a status symbol. Officials of the empire took to wearing these ornate daggers in the performance of their offices, and some would wear concealed daggers as a defense against contingencies.

Like the gladius, the pugio was a stabbing weapon, the type preferred by the Romans. Of them Vegetius says:
A stroke with the edges, though made with ever so much force, seldom kills, .... On the contrary, a stab, though it penetrates but two inches, is generally fatal. ... the body is covered while a thrust is given, and the adversary receives the point before he sees the sword. This was the method of fighting principally used by the Romans .The dagger was a common weapon of assassination and suicide; for example, it is recorded that the conspirators who stabbed Julius Caesar used pugiones.

 

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