12-05-2007, 10:46 PM
Quote:just more textual references to "linothorax", I think not yet discussed here:
...I think you'll find all have been referred to at one time or another in the various lengthy discussions... :lol: :lol: :lol:
....though it's nice to have them summarised together.....and as you will realise they simply confirm what is known....linen corselets are known, and worn by Barbarians, but there is no reference to them being worn by Greeks in classical times, only archaic legendary times, such as Homer and other poems of legendary times..... :wink: :wink:
....though it is noteworthy that Xenophon refers to "...a custom/fashion of his country.." i.e. Persia, but evidently not a custom or fashion in Greece of the time....
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
