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[Aemilianus]

Ok I will post infos when it is completelly finished. It is indeed a lot of hardwork, as usual everytime you embark yourself on a new project you estimate roughly how many hours it will take... and when you finish it you discover that you have spend 3 to 4 times that amount of time!!! But you look at it and you wander why it took so long. Part of the answer is that you buid something for the first time, if you have many to make, you dicover new ways more efficient and sometimes faster. Also, no matter how good you are, we buid these objects in limited quantities, and you can never hope to be as good as a master craftmen in antiquity that spend years on working over and over on the same thing.

Many times I told myself never again! but with time, you sometimes discover new archeological evidences that will make you want to change or improve what you have done, and sure again you go back to it... I think that I am never completelly satisfied with what I do; It has good sides and bad sides to it. But I least I do not hesitate to put myself in question over and over! This keep me on moving on.

The Republic make me think differrently about all my equipment, I had to restart from zero and redo everything from the tunica to the shoes.

My equipment is not complete yet, among other things the shoes are a big problem. Peter Connolly wrote me that I could use Caligae, but the evidences I found pointed more for perones. I still need to have these more researched and made. I will go for both actually and I am still looking for evidences. So if anybody can help me you will be more than welcome.

Thank you for your interest on this subject and period of history.