11-20-2014, 03:27 PM
I thought something similar. Considering the velites are known to be the poorest of the classes, it wouldn't surprise me if they had a cheap shield too. But I thought maybe the Bruttian parma might be a flat thureos shield, of standard size, maybe slightly smaller. By the time of Marius, the flat thureos was the dominant shield type of Europe and the Mediterranean, it would have been easy to reissue the men with those types.
