Linothorax design/construction

[Vishtaspa]

I think Xenophon was not inconsistent. But in antiquity itself, sometimes the texts were misunderstood or corrupted. I must check the appataratus criticus of the Anabasis, but the correct reading of the passage is "kai spolades kai thorakes", nevertheless, it is posible that Pollux read a manuscript in wich was the lecture "kai spolas anti thorakos". Such text corruptions ocur several times in manuscript transmision. (and exist the possibility that in fact Xenophon wrote in that way, and Pollux had a good source). Of course, Pollux also could quote a Xenophon's lost work.
But what I mean is that several times inconsistences come from textual transmision and copists, not from the autor, who knows what is writing.

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