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Glued Linen Armour- a simple test
Yup !....and that assumes it is not a 2nd C BC forgery !

However, accepting it for the moment as genuine, we have referred to it before on a previous thread...

An anonymous verse from 'Anthologia Palatina' (Snodgrass thought it could be dated to Archilocus' time - who wrote around 650 BC)
-Book XIV, poem 73: "argeioi linothorekes" "Argives linen-cuirassed"
The poem contains archaisms (or deliberate archaisms) like the genitive in "-oio", and the phrase "linen cuirassed Argives" seems to be a deliberate 'Homeric' phrase and formulaic........

A very dubious piece of evidence it would appear.......
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(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
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Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by Matt Lukes - 06-11-2009, 03:58 AM
Re: Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by geala - 06-23-2009, 10:30 AM
Re: Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by geala - 06-24-2009, 06:22 AM
Re: Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by geala - 06-25-2009, 09:51 AM
Re: Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by Kineas - 07-08-2009, 01:36 AM
Re: Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by Doc - 10-06-2009, 01:27 AM
Re: Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by Doc - 10-06-2009, 02:53 PM
Re: Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by Kineas - 10-15-2009, 01:28 PM
Re: Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by Kineas - 10-15-2009, 07:16 PM
Re: Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by Kineas - 10-16-2009, 12:56 AM
Re: Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by Kineas - 10-16-2009, 03:42 AM
Re: Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by Kineas - 10-19-2009, 07:19 PM
Re: Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by Kineas - 11-06-2009, 03:42 PM
Re: Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by Kineas - 11-06-2009, 11:48 PM
Re: Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by Paullus Scipio - 11-07-2009, 06:19 AM
Re: Glued Linen Armour- a simple test - by Doc - 11-22-2009, 07:26 AM

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