Linothorax design/construction

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

Back to the subject-it's been so long we've not debated about this :lol:
I just checked,Xenophon "Kyrou Anabasis" book 4 7/15-27:

"Εντεύθεν επορεύθησαν δια Χαλύβων σταθμούς επτά παρασάγγας πεντήκοντα. ούτοι ήσαν ών διήλθον αλκιμώτατοι, και εις χείρας ήσαν. είχον δε θώρακας λινούς μέχρι του ήτρου,αντί δε των πτερύγων σπάρτα μυκνά εστραμμένα"

My translation,for those who don't read ancient Greek:

From there they walked through the land of Chalybes for seven stations and fifty parasanges. These men whos land they were crossing were very agressive and ready to fight. They had linen thoraxes that reached to their genitals, and instead of pteryges they had ropes from sparta(a plant?)."

He is clearly separating these linen thoraxes from those the Greeks knew and which had pteryges.Previously in the same book he mentions the Spartan soldier that was killed when a Karducian arrow went through his shield and spolas.Spolas is something different than a thorax,and it's clear that when he says thorax he means a linen thorax.Metal thorakes were of course much more rare and the word thorax was used for both linen and metal.
Khairete
Giannis