10-30-2007, 07:18 AM
"Unfortunately I haven't been able to get hold of Plutarch's original greek, so we can't tell if he says 'dory' (spear)'longche'(often wrongly translated as pike) 'sarissa' or even some greek version of a Roman name(he was writing during the Principate period), nor do we know what he used for shield -'aspis' or 'pelte' or something else ...! "
....while I can't get hold of the original Plutarch, I can get hold of Quintus Curtius version of the murder , and the latin is 'lancea', which in greek is 'longche'.......so now, not only were there no bodyguards/Hypaspists present, but the murder weapon wasn't a sarissa anyway......
The bookie is looking like taking yer dough, Mike !
....while I can't get hold of the original Plutarch, I can get hold of Quintus Curtius version of the murder , and the latin is 'lancea', which in greek is 'longche'.......so now, not only were there no bodyguards/Hypaspists present, but the murder weapon wasn't a sarissa anyway......
The bookie is looking like taking yer dough, Mike !
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(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