. Archaeologia Graeca; or, The antiquities of Greece. A New ed., to which is added an appendix containing a concise history of the Grecian states and a short account of the lives and writings of the most celebrated Greek authors. ld with his boss repel thera all. TiXccfcm^ was a thong of leather, and sometimes a rod of metal,reaching cross the buckler, whereby they hung it upon theirsiioulders, according to the primitive fashion ^ : whence Homer ^; ? —xvra^ wjr ufiuv AffTli ffVV nkUftUVI ^UfiOLl TTlffi Ti^filOBffffa. Down from his shoulders tbe huge buckler fell,With its Ioosd thong. It was so
. Archaeologia Graeca; or, The antiquities of Greece. A New ed., to which is added an appendix containing a concise history of the Grecian states and a short account of the lives and writings of the most celebrated Greek authors. ld with his boss repel thera all. TiXccfcm^ was a thong of leather, and sometimes a rod of metal,reaching cross the buckler, whereby they hung it upon theirsiioulders, according to the primitive fashion ^ : whence Homer ^; ? —xvra^ wjr ufiuv AffTli ffVV nkUftUVI ^UfiOLl TTlffi Ti^filOBffffa. Down from his shoulders tbe huge buckler fell,With its Ioosd thong. It was sometimes called Ktiyavy except this may be understood ofthe rod to which the nXxfAm was fastened, as Hesychius expoundsit, which seems most probable; and ihat kxvovi^ were rods wherebyllie bucklers werc held (as Homers scholiast reports), h\xi ny^xfAanifthe thongs affixed to tliem, andhung upon the warriors shoulders,though Eustathius will have them to have been put to the fornieriise, and to be the same with kxvovh ^. Sometiines the bucklersHcre Ijcld by little rings called 7rogT«x8j; but at Icngth most of the niad. n. V. 222. V Eustathius, Iliad. /3. p. 184. cdit. Basil. Jliad. i. V. 270. Jliad. p. ^ citato. I. Of thc Mi/i/(tn/ Jffairsof Greece. 33 Grcciansuscd a liandlc callcd oy^ccvov, or oy^dvny wliicli, tlioiip;!! sonic-liines spokcn of wilh llic foiincr nanics, and cxplaincd by tlicni,was rcally difTcrcnt froni botli, bcing invcnted by tlic Carians ,and, as it is coinmonly thouglit, coniposed for tlie niost part ofsniall iron bars, placcd cross each otlicr, and rcscmbling ihcletter ^, ^* When the wars werc endcd, and ihc bucklcrs (as wascustomary) hung up in thc lcmplcs of thc gods, thcy took ofF thcliandles, ihcreby to rcndcr them unfit to scrve in any sudden in-surrcction: whcnce Aristophanes introduccs a person affVighted,when he savy bucklers hanging up with handlcs ; O sad ! the bucklers handles have. Which anothcr had also found fault with a little before ;
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