09-06-2016, 09:30 AM
(09-06-2016, 06:34 AM)Paullus Scipio Wrote: Julius Pollux: ". "Spolas de thorax ek dermatos, kata tous omous ephaptomenos, hos Xenophon ephe "kai spolas anti thorakos" is about as clear as we could hope for."
........and Hesychios clarifies even further.....
spolas: khitoniskos bathus skutinos, ho bursinos thorax
"little thick leathern(skutinos) chiton, the leathern (bursinos) thorax"
the 'spolas' is a leather 'thorax'/body armour, like a chiton of thick leather[skutinos]...
Don't forget 'linothorax' was NOT a classical term.
I imagine the 'thorax conundrum' is very similar to the 'lorica conundrum'? Generic use of words in unclear sources, modern invented terminology?
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
