09-13-2007, 12:05 AM
Sorry, you posted while I was editing mine ! As you can see, in classical times, according to three different dictionaries, "auchen" refers to the neck or throat generally, not just the back of the neck.
Also, if Xenophon was talking about the conventional neck-guard that protects the back of the neck on tube-and-yoke corselets, it would be physically impossible to extend this round the face and throat to the nose, and still put the armour on !!
Also, if Xenophon was talking about the conventional neck-guard that protects the back of the neck on tube-and-yoke corselets, it would be physically impossible to extend this round the face and throat to the nose, and still put the armour on !!
"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