xenophon on horsemanship- the armour

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'Gauntlet' seems an odd translation for what sounds like segmented arm armour, something like a Roman manica. Could 'with the hand engaged in holding the reins' actually be something like 'and the wrist/forearm of the hand holding the reins'?

Morgan merely uses the term "the arm" (his italics) but the subsequent foot note says this:

"Examples(but not of Greek origin) of this flexible piece of armour have been found at Olympis and at Pergamon. It was made of strips of metal, lapping over each other like the fingers of a medieval gauntlet".

One hopes it is safe to assume he was referring to manica but as yet I have not looked up the references for the finds.