05-09-2007, 11:58 PM
DB Campbell,
It would be instructive if we had someone who had access to the Greek text and could translate the passage:
... 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;
My personal interpretation was that the spolades were provided for the slingers.
It would be instructive if we had someone who had access to the Greek text and could translate the passage:
... 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;
My personal interpretation was that the spolades were provided for the slingers.
Peter Raftos
