. The life of the Greeks and Romans. ]Kes, a/jL(p[yvov), was about16 to 18 inches long by 2 to 2-^A scabbard (/roAeos, Fig. 277, e t), made. wide * * A beautiful Greek sword, found near Pella in Makedonia, now in the Eoyal Anti-quarium of Berlin, has a blade 17 inches long, and a hand]e measuring 4 blade of another sword in the same collection is 19| inches in length, the hiltbeirjg 4 inches long. The latter resembles perfectly our Fig. 277, d. f Sword and scabbard (Fig. 277 <?, d) belong to one and the same figure. THE SWORD.—THE HARPE. 245 either of leather or metal, covered th
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. ]Kes, a/jL(p[yvov), was about16 to 18 inches long by 2 to 2-^A scabbard (/roAeos, Fig. 277, e t), made. wide * * A beautiful Greek sword, found near Pella in Makedonia, now in the Eoyal Anti-quarium of Berlin, has a blade 17 inches long, and a hand]e measuring 4 blade of another sword in the same collection is 19| inches in length, the hiltbeirjg 4 inches long. The latter resembles perfectly our Fig. 277, d. f Sword and scabbard (Fig. 277 <?, d) belong to one and the same figure. THE SWORD.—THE HARPE. 245 either of leather or metal, covered the blade up to the hilt.* Thesword of heroic times was, like most weapons, modified by thechanged mode of warfare of a later period. According to CorneliusNepos, Iphikrates increased, according to Diodoros, he doubled, thelength of the sword-blades of the infantry of the line ; the hoplitai,however, retained the shorter sword of earlier times. Besidesthis straight sword, ancient writers also mention another, theLakedsemonian sword (jjiayaipa) ; its blade was slightly bent onone, the sharpened, side, while the other side was blunt lik
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