Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "The Celts through The Eyes of The Romans: Blue War Paint? Phalanx?" video.

  1.  @edi9892  The most famous example is ancient Greek. They had two separate words for light and dark blue (glaukos and kuáneos), but the same words meant light and dark green and light and dark grey. Infact, over the centuries there had been a lot of debate over what was the real colour of the eyes of the Goddess Athena (glaukiao or glaukopis)
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  2.  Alex Evans  The Romans considered their scuti to be derived by the Samnites' ones. Semi-rectangular/oval shields were diffused among several Italic populations.
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  3.  @edi9892  In Italian "blu" is dark blue, "azzurro" is middle blue and "celeste" is light blue.
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  4. Actually that of Boudica had been a mass attack vs. a reduced Roman formation, that ended in disaster.
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  5. There's a reason traditions begin, but then they keep on only because "it's the tradition". In a culture where warriors were supposed to paint themsenf before going into battle, I can easily see someone not doing that being mocked even by his enemies, for having shown on the battlefield without being properly dressed for it "Go pict yourself! and don't even think to go back here without being blue!"
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  6.  @Uthandol  As you can see we were answering to someone (Alex Evans) that later deleted his comments.
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  7. Cicero surely used "caeruleum" for blue and "viridi" for green, so they had been distinguished before first century BC.
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