04-01-2004, 02:24 AM
Her you go here is three but in the read ive done over the years Im sure i have read it many times.<br>
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Diod 14.27.6<br>
For the arrows were more than two cubits long1 and pierced both the shields and breastplates, so that no armour could withstand their force; and these arrows they used were so large, we are told, that the Greeks wound thongs about those that had been shot and used them as javelins to hurl back.<br>
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Xen Anab 4.1.18<br>
Then it was that a brave man was killed, Leonymus the Laconian, who was pierced in the side by an arrow that went through his shield and cuirass; also Basias the Arcadian, who was shot clean through the head.<br>
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Pausanius Description of Greece .1.21.7<br>
Linen breastplates are not so useful to fighters, for they let the iron pass through, if the blow be a violent one. They aid hunters, how ever, for the teeth of lions or leopards break off in them. You may see linen breastplates dedicated in other sanctuaries, notably in that at Gryneum,<br>
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Diod 14.27.6<br>
For the arrows were more than two cubits long1 and pierced both the shields and breastplates, so that no armour could withstand their force; and these arrows they used were so large, we are told, that the Greeks wound thongs about those that had been shot and used them as javelins to hurl back.<br>
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Xen Anab 4.1.18<br>
Then it was that a brave man was killed, Leonymus the Laconian, who was pierced in the side by an arrow that went through his shield and cuirass; also Basias the Arcadian, who was shot clean through the head.<br>
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Pausanius Description of Greece .1.21.7<br>
Linen breastplates are not so useful to fighters, for they let the iron pass through, if the blow be a violent one. They aid hunters, how ever, for the teeth of lions or leopards break off in them. You may see linen breastplates dedicated in other sanctuaries, notably in that at Gryneum,<br>
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