04-05-2004, 10:08 PM
Of course, Pausanias and Xenophon are talking about fabric protection: linen or leather, not metal.<br>
Diodorus at least uses the word <em>thorax</em>, which might imply an armoured cuirass of some kind -- Pausanias uses the word for the lamellar armour of the Sauromatae, but then he talks about <em>thorakes linoi</em>, "linen corselets", in your passage (1.21.7). <p></p><i></i>
Diodorus at least uses the word <em>thorax</em>, which might imply an armoured cuirass of some kind -- Pausanias uses the word for the lamellar armour of the Sauromatae, but then he talks about <em>thorakes linoi</em>, "linen corselets", in your passage (1.21.7). <p></p><i></i>
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