What covers the genitals.
"With the Romans fighting unclothed in [sc. only] their girdles".[1]
*peri/zwma: to\ u(po\ ta\ ai)doi=a ske/pasma. gumnw=n maxome/nwn tw=n *(rwmai/wn e)n toi=s perizw/masi.
[1]
Polybius fr.196 B-W. See also, and more explicitly,
Polybius 6.25.3: the earliest Roman cavalry wore no cuirasses but went into battle wearing only their
perizw/mata. Here as often elsewhere,
gymnos does not mean literally naked but more lightly clothed than might otherwise have been expected.
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