04-09-2010, 03:57 PM
I would tend to go with Christian on this.
It is the second time I've seen this idea used in a novel, one a novel about gladiators who actually used a deliberately sharpened scutum edge, and another where the edge of a scutum was used to behead an enemy by a Legionary/auxiliary, but no mention of the edge being sharpened. The very nature of scutum edging makes this a bit of a flight of fancy to be sure, usually of a rounded nature I believe, on the whole.I believe. And of no little danger to the soldier carrying it too.
It is the second time I've seen this idea used in a novel, one a novel about gladiators who actually used a deliberately sharpened scutum edge, and another where the edge of a scutum was used to behead an enemy by a Legionary/auxiliary, but no mention of the edge being sharpened. The very nature of scutum edging makes this a bit of a flight of fancy to be sure, usually of a rounded nature I believe, on the whole.I believe. And of no little danger to the soldier carrying it too.
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel