. The life of the Greeks and Romans. Fie:. 265. Fig. 266. specimen of it (Fig. 266) has been preserved to us. It waspurchased by Bronsted in Eubcea, and described by him in hispamphlet, Die Bronzen von Siris. Itconsists of bronze, and is eleven inches the inside fifteen larger and thirteensmaller indentures have been made which,on the outside, look like so many smallsemi-globes; the hooks at each end servedto attach it to the lining of the real definition of zoster and mitra explains,at the same time, Homers description(Iliad, IV., 135 et seq.). We mention, together with the
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. Fie:. 265. Fig. 266. specimen of it (Fig. 266) has been preserved to us. It waspurchased by Bronsted in Eubcea, and described by him in hispamphlet, Die Bronzen von Siris. Itconsists of bronze, and is eleven inches the inside fifteen larger and thirteensmaller indentures have been made which,on the outside, look like so many smallsemi-globes; the hooks at each end servedto attach it to the lining of the real definition of zoster and mitra explains,at the same time, Homers description(Iliad, IV., 135 et seq.). We mention, together with the ironcuirass, the linen jerkin (XivoOwpi^) wornby Aias, the son of Oileus and Am-phios, in Homer; and the iron chiton{yakKoyjTwv). Both were tight-fitting,made of leather or linen, and had piecesof iron attached to them to protectthe heart and the shoulders (,267). A belt was added, to protect the abdomen. The shoulder-pieces tied to the belt or to the jerkin itself (Fig. 267) were, asappears from numerous representations, richly orname
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