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

Servius的盔甲和武器，包括他的短剑，长盾，两个短矛，重达20多千克。

But a gladius is always used with a scutum.

但格拉迪乌斯剑总是与盾（scutum）配合使用。

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

因此，关于盾的问题于，人来说，scutum（长盾）就是盾。

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

和晚期，我们见到了弯曲的长盾。

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

我们面临的问题是，我们倾向于认为“长盾”（scutum）是一种特定类型的椭圆盾。

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，例如椭圆的盾似乎公元前390-387年的高卢入侵和阿里亚战役后被人非常迅速地采用。

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.

如果你登上了敌船， 你会拿着你的盾，场面会混乱、肮脏、湿滑且困难，但你会尽全力战斗，用盾保护自己，用剑攻击。