Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor - New Book

[Duncan Head]

Actually Duncan, the word "linothorax" (λινοθώραξ) is a rare word but it is a noun, not an adjective, so this should not worry you.

Really? It only ever seems to be used to qualify another noun - Argeioi linothorakes, for instance. And "wearing a linen cuirass" is the LSJ rendering, not "a linen cuirass".

Strabo uses "linothorax" as a noun

Do you have a reference? I know "Lusitanous ...linothorakes oi pleious" in 3.3.6, but again that seems adjectival: he's saying the Lusitanians are linen-corseleted, not that they are linen corselets.