Question about Plutarch\'s description of a Celt

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01-04-2006, 07:18 PM

Yes the exact translation is "well-armoured".
Some books follow or copy the romantic or victorian scholars and their
"poetic translations". Some one talked of the "Spartans and their bucklers" in Thermopylae while translating Herodotus. (Bucklers!!!?????????????????!!!!!)

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Question about Plutarch\'s description of a Celt - by Paullus - 12-23-2005, 09:48 PM

Re: Question about Plutarch\'s description of a Celt - by Duncan Head - 01-01-2006, 05:27 PM

Re: Question about Plutarch\'s description of a Celt - by Paullus - 01-04-2006, 05:40 PM

Re: Question about Plutarch\'s description of a Celt - by Duncan Head - 01-04-2006, 05:57 PM

Re: Question about Plutarch\'s description of a Celt - by hoplite14gr - 01-04-2006, 07:18 PM

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