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Greaves of Hair
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According to Liddell and Scott the ancient Greeks used the word PILOS to describe hair or felt (or anything made of felt) and provide plenty of examples to support this. Modern Greek may have a different definition which doesn't really help in this instance.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/pt ... 3D%2383166
pilos , ho,

A. wool or hair wrought into felt, used as a lining for helmets, Il.10.265 ; for shoes, Hes.Op.542, cf. Pl.Smp.220b, Luc.Rh.Pr.15; but tên tôn oikeiôn pilôn genesin, playfully, of the human hair, Pl.Lg. 942e.

II. anything made of felt, esp. close-fitting cap, Hes.Op.546, Arist.GA785a27, AP6.90 (Phil.), etc.; pilous tiaras phoreontes wearing turbans for caps, Hdt.3.12; anti tôn p. mitrêphoroi êsan Id.7.62 , cf. 61,92 ; piloi tois dêmosiois IG22.1672.70 ; p. leukos ib.5(1).1390.13 (Andania, i B. C.); of various fashions, p. Arkadikos Polyaen.4.14 ; Lakônikos Poll.1.149 ; Makedonikos, = kausia, Id.10.162 ; p. chalkous a brazen cap, i. e. helmet, Ar.Lys.562 ; of the apex worn by Roman flamines, D.H.2.64 (pl.).

2. felt shoe, leukous hupo possin echôn p. Cratin.100.

3. felt cloth, used for carpets, mats, tents, etc., Hdt. 4.23,73,75, Hp.Aër.18 (pl.), cf. X.Cyr.5.5.7, Aen.Tact.33.3 (pl.), etc.; for horse-cloths, Plu.Art.11.

4. felt cuirass, jerkin, Th.4.34.

III. amadou, Polyporus igniarius, Thphr.HP3.7.4.

b. embryo of Nelumbium, ib.4.8.7.

2. ball, sphairizousa pilôi Suid. Hist.(FHGiip.464)Fr.2.

IV. = Lat. pilus, as in primus pilus, Suid. (Cf. Lat. pilleus.)
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen & Sword Books
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