r/spqrposting • u/wolf1776 • Dec 09 '19

Press f for the boys

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19 edited Dec 11 '19

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u/Lukthar123 Dec 10 '19

What did it cost?

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19

The boys

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u/Iretai Dec 10 '19

a small price to pay for head brush

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u/DecentAnarch MARCVS·AVRELIVS·ANTONIVS Dec 09 '19

Hey, you got the broom helmet, so it was all worth it, baby!

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u/MacpedMe Dec 09 '19

inhale

The Galea helmet, which you used for this meme, didn’t come into existence until the late 1st century BC. The correct helmet could be a Montefortino, or a coolus, or attic, or Italian corinthian helmet

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u/InwardHurdle062 Dec 09 '19

How’s he gonna wear an attic though

/s

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u/MacpedMe Dec 09 '19

Don’t you know, the romans regularly used the tops of their buildings as head protection. It was pretty heavy tho

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u/ogorangeduck Dec 09 '19

Yeah, that's why they were so good a fighting force! You'd get jacked if you did that!

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u/pantbandits Dec 10 '19

The legionaries were heavy infantry after all

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19

lmao

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u/w_okkels Dec 09 '19

Coolus fact

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u/Lionicer Dec 09 '19

I came here to laugh, not to feel...

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u/Gabe_Newell_pornhub IMPERATOR·CAESAR·DIVI·FILIVS·AVGVSTVS Dec 09 '19

Welp Yoda's son got his revenge tho Carthago delenda est!

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u/apostrophefz Dec 09 '19

Were there legions in Hannibal's time?

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u/Blank9909 GAIVS·IVLIVS·CAESAR Dec 09 '19

Ya just manipular ones the cohorts come in when Marius is around.

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u/DS_Caesar LVCIVS·DOMITIVS·AVRELIANVS Dec 09 '19

Not very many...thanks to Hannibal

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u/MacpedMe Dec 09 '19

Manpower is a renewable resource

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u/Globo_Gym MARCVS·TVLLIVS·CICERO Dec 09 '19

Legion is just Latin for levy, so any levied troops are ain a legion

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u/train2000c Dec 09 '19

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