Leather Cuirass

[D B Campbell]

Xenophon in the Anabasis mentions the spolas ( spolas = Aeolic for Attic stolê) and thorax together when equipping a unit of slingers and cavalry. The implication here is that the spolas is a type of protective garment for slingers.
"... in the course of that night a company of two hundred slingers was organized, while on the following day horses and horsemen to the number of fifty were examined and accepted, and jerkins (spolades) and cuirasses (thôrakes) were provided for them"

This was one of the quotes that I listed earlier, Peter. I think Xenophon's Greek indicates that the horsemen received both spolades and thôrakes. My question was: did each horseman receive both? (i.e., was the spolas an undergarment?) Or did some get a spolas, and others a thôrax? (i.e., was the spolas a viable protective garment in its own right?)