Linothorax design/construction

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Inyigo wrote:-

In other places, Hesychius also connects "thorax" with "chiton", vests...

...and several dictionaries have" thorakes chest armour, breast plate, body armour, cuirass, often of bronze......"

Thank you for making the point that it is not just the general definitions we must look at, but each particular author's use of words, a point I have made many times. It is interesting that Xenophon is excluded from some lexica on the grounds that his 'Attic' isn't pure enough, being contaminated by Lacedaemonian etc and through use of technical terms....