05-21-2007, 05:26 PM
Quote:Julius Pollux, Onomasticon VII.70:
(It's from page 291 of this edition via Google Books
http://books.google.com/books?id=v8cNAAAAIAAJ )
This is great. "Spolas de thorax ek dermatos, kata tous omous ephaptomenos, hos Xenophon ephe "kai spolas anti thorakos" is about as clear as we could hope for.
Stefanos' translation is good, but you make it look like Aristophanes says this. My translation would be:
Quote:...wrapped in five sisyras
says Aristophanes. The spolas is a thorax of leather, from
the shoulders attached, so that Xenophon says "and the spolas
instead of the thorax."
The separate sentence "Sophokles names it Libyssan: [The] Libyssan spolas is a spotted hide" is pretty clear that this description is not the normal spolas, but the kind from Libyssa (modern Gebze, where Hannibal committed suicide).
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
