LŌRĪCA

( θώραξ ), a cuira . The cuira was worn by the heavy-armed infantry both among the Greeks and Romans. The soldiers commonly wore cuira es made of flexible bands of steel, or cuira es of chain mail; but those of generals and officers usually consisted of two γύαλα , the breast-piece and back-piece, made of bronze, iron, ., which were joined by means of buckles ( περόναι ). The epithets λεπιδωτός and φολιδωτός are applied to a cuira ; the former on account of its resemblance to the scales of fish ( λεπίσιν ), the latter to the scales of serpents ( φολίσιν ). Among the Asiatic nations the cuira was frequently made of cotton, and among the Sarmatians and other northern nations of horn. IMG:6459379820872971714_ill241a.jpg: Lorica. λεπιδωτός . Lorica. φολιδωτός . (Bartoli, ‘Arcus Triumph.’)