11-25-2008, 04:31 PM
Where do you get the pattern for the plates you have attached to the baldric? I don't think I have seen plates like that before, although there is some evidence for studs being attached to some sword baldrics.
"Balteus. Not sword on the belt directly. I see why now."
Ahem - a balteus IS a belt. As far as I know there is no distinction in Latin between a belt that goes around your waist and a belt which passes over your shoulder. The term 'cingulum' seems to refer to women's belts until the third century, when it seems to come into more general use as a term for both sexes. The term 'cingtus' might refer to a specifically military belt in the first century but the owners of such belts seem usually to refer to them simply as 'balteii' - belts.
Crispvs
"Balteus. Not sword on the belt directly. I see why now."
Ahem - a balteus IS a belt. As far as I know there is no distinction in Latin between a belt that goes around your waist and a belt which passes over your shoulder. The term 'cingulum' seems to refer to women's belts until the third century, when it seems to come into more general use as a term for both sexes. The term 'cingtus' might refer to a specifically military belt in the first century but the owners of such belts seem usually to refer to them simply as 'balteii' - belts.
Crispvs
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