Iphicratian Pelte & Pelte Sarrisophoron

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No arguing on the mail but what were their experiences? Did they serve in war? Where did they live?

For something like this I think we simply need to know who was the better copyist. We ideally want them to tell us exactly what an earlier writer recorded, not interject their opinions or interpretations as Nepos, or whomever he is reading, seems to have done. For this reason, a cloistered bookworm is perhaps better than a man with military experience. Experience is great in a primary author like Xenophon, but I am never sure reading Arrian, for example, how much he is misinterpreting through his own experience.