06-28-2013, 01:32 PM
Correct, Homer -and all who quote him on this- uses the word λινοθώρηξ as an adjective (which is an adjective of course, in Greek it is the suffixes that determine a word, so an eta is a big change) and there is also another example of it in use in some oracle about the Megarians mentioned by many authors. Aelius Herodianus mentions the word linothorax (as a noun), as do Georgios Choeroboscos and Eustathios, the first two as examples of nouns and not in sentences.
