05-21-2007, 09:30 PM
The reference to Xenophon might be to a 'missing' bit, but I think it refers to the passage where Xenophon talks about raising the cavalry unit, and equipping them with armour - spolades and thorakes. Since Xenophon was an experienced military man, I think he knew what he was talking about and that the best interpretation is that 'spolas' meant tube-and yoke corselet and 'thorakes' a metal cuirass, as I said earlier.
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff