Servius's armor and weapons, including his gladius, scutum, and two pila, weigh over 20 kilograms.

Servius盔甲和武器，包括他短剑，长形盾，两个短矛，重达20多千克。

If you're boarding an enemy ship, you're gonna have your scutum, and it's gonna be messy and nasty and slippery and difficult, but you're gonna fight as best you can, protecting yourself with your shield, striking with your sword.

如果登上了敌船， 会拿盾牌，场面会混乱、肮脏、湿滑且困难，但会尽全力斗，用盾牌保护自己，用剑攻击。

And the problem we have is that we like to say that a scutum is a specific kind of oblong shield.

面临问题是，向于认为“长形盾”（scutum）是一种特定类型椭圆形盾牌。

But a gladius is always used with a scutum.

但格拉迪乌斯剑总是与盾牌（scutum）配合使用。

We have the curved oblong scutum in the late Republican period.

在共和晚期，见到了弯曲长形盾。

So, the problem you've got with shields is to a Roman, a scutum is a shield.

因此，关于盾牌问题在于，对罗马人来说，scutum（长形盾）就是盾牌。

It's also something, for instance, the oval scutum seems to be adopted by the Romans really quite quickly after the Gallic invasion and the Battle of Allia in 390-387 BC.

这也是一种情况，例如椭圆形盾牌似乎在公元前390-387年高卢入侵和阿里亚役后被罗马人非常迅速地采用。