A dictionary of Greek and Roman . lds in the templeswhen the irdpiraKes were taken off, in order torender them unserviceable in case of any sudden orpopular outbreak ; which custom accounts for thealarm of Demosthenes in the Knights of Aristo-phanes (859), when he saw them hanging up withtheir handles on. The aenris was carried by the heavy-armed men(birKtrai) during the historical times of Greece,and is opposed to the lighter ite\T7) and yeppov:hence Ave find the word acrirls used to signify abody of birXlraL (Xen. Anab. i. 7. § 10). According to Livy (i. 43), when the census wa
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . lds in the templeswhen the irdpiraKes were taken off, in order torender them unserviceable in case of any sudden orpopular outbreak ; which custom accounts for thealarm of Demosthenes in the Knights of Aristo-phanes (859), when he saw them hanging up withtheir handles on. The aenris was carried by the heavy-armed men(birKtrai) during the historical times of Greece,and is opposed to the lighter ite\T7) and yeppov:hence Ave find the word acrirls used to signify abody of birXlraL (Xen. Anab. i. 7. § 10). According to Livy (i. 43), when the census wasinstituted by Servius Tullius, the first class onlyused the clipeus, and the second were armed withthe scutum [Scutum] ; but after the Roman sol-dier received pay, the clipeus was discontinuedaltogether for the Sabine scutum. (Liv. viii. 8 ;compare ix. 19 ; Plut. Rom. 21 ; Diod. 3, who asserts that the original form of theRoman shield was square, and that it was subse-quently changed for that of the Tyrrhenians, whichwas round.).
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