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The Roman patrician, lovingly, called their red sandals, solea, with the soldiers of the Emperor, all wearing heavy, high-laced, hobnailed boots (sandals, open at the toe), known as caliga.
The generals of Rome, all wore ornate sandals whose straps snaked around their ankles and ended halfway up their calves, underneath leather leg guards, now called greaves.
While the shields of the ordinary soldiers of the legions were made of leather, the shields of the generals were often leather, encrusted with metals, silver and brass, usually, but, for the highest officers, even gold was used to signify their highest rank.
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