11-24-2007, 09:18 PM
Sean wrote:-
True, Sean.Which is why I used the word"indicator". Nevertheless,it does suggest that bronze curasses were pretty scarce, even if you multiply by factor ten , wouldn't you agree? :wink:
Quote:I'd have to see an analysis of every use of both words in Xenophon to be convinced that he always uses them in the precise technical sense you suggest....that's a big ask ! hock: I have done that analysis, and I am very confident(in the scientific sense) of the results...Xenophon's use of the words is clear and consistent, but to post such an analysis here......!!
Quote:And I'm not sure if even that could prove it......phew! - I needn't bother then!
Quote:Re: the apparent shortage of cuirrasses in the Ten Thousand, remember that many of them were from the poorest parts of Greece and that not all with a bronze cuirrass may have donated theirs.
True, Sean.Which is why I used the word"indicator". Nevertheless,it does suggest that bronze curasses were pretty scarce, even if you multiply by factor ten , wouldn't you agree? :wink:
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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