05-13-2007, 09:23 PM
Sorry, Giannis
My Penguin Classic Plutarch (Alas, I don't have the Loeb) says;"pierced his breastplate and lodged in his chest btween the ribs"
Dan has zoomed in on a very specific example, which, as he says, is all too rare.
regards, Paullus Scipio/Paul McDonnell-Staff
My Penguin Classic Plutarch (Alas, I don't have the Loeb) says;"pierced his breastplate and lodged in his chest btween the ribs"
Dan has zoomed in on a very specific example, which, as he says, is all too rare.
regards, Paullus Scipio/Paul McDonnell-Staff
"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
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(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