10-17-2005, 12:20 AM
My version of Thucydides [4.34.3] says this: gar hoi piloi estegon ta toxeumata, doratia te enapekeklasto ballomenôn, eichon te.
Translation according to J. R. Dent. "their caps would not keep out the arrows, darts had broken off in the armour of the wounded."
I can't find any variant of SPOLLAS in the above sentence. Unless Thucydides wrote two different versions of the Peloponnesian War or the version I have was not written by Thucydides, then he uses PILOS to describe felt caps. Can you provide a reference to where he uses SPOLLAS?
Translation according to J. R. Dent. "their caps would not keep out the arrows, darts had broken off in the armour of the wounded."
I can't find any variant of SPOLLAS in the above sentence. Unless Thucydides wrote two different versions of the Peloponnesian War or the version I have was not written by Thucydides, then he uses PILOS to describe felt caps. Can you provide a reference to where he uses SPOLLAS?
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen & Sword Books
