in antiquity, a light caftue, head-piece, or morion, coming down to the shoulders, and commonly of brafs; though Camillus, according to Plutarch, ordered those of his army to be of iron, as being the stronger metal. The lower part of it was called buccula, and on the top was a crest. The Velites wore a light galea, made of the skin of some wild beast to make it more terrible.