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[Diocle]

Pavel the Old King must be always at the first place! One of my Latin theachers told told us: before translating, read the Latin text two or three times, you'll start to understand the meaning...and then translate. Well, not always, but many time it worked! mile:

Waiting for Pavel, here my last unorthodox effort, titled:

"Unfortunate Heroes. Milvian Bridge 312 AD."



This unfortunate man belongs to the Pretorian Guard of Maxentius (that the True Greek-Roman Gods protect His memory!), he wears the classic scale armor of the Pretorians and his shield is the pretorian shield with scales depicted on it (drawing the scales on the shiled has been like an Horror Movie! Terrible! sorry for the result!), our man wears a padded linen subarmalis under the scale suit, and hold a semi-spatha (if I depicted it in the wrong way, please tell me, I'll correct it!) and a pilum, but the most important detail is this one: The Pretorian wears an Attic Helmet, copied from the reliefs of the Arch of Constantine and from a model built by a fantastic Italian Architect (like me!) and reenactor called Stefano Mattesini, the pic of the Attic helmet is published on a beautiful book (with awesome paintings and drawings) titled: 'Le Legioni Romane. l'armamnto in mille anni di storia'.

Colonel Simon Macdowall wrote about the Attic helmets on the Arch of Constantinus:

'..probably another artistic convention, although it is likely that a differnt style of Attic Helmat was worn during the Late Roman period...'

So if Colonel Macdowall wrote that 'it's likely', who am I to disagree with one of my living legends? So here the Attic Helmet by Diocle.