. 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. et us take an account of their defensive arms, as fitted tothe several members of the body, beginning at the head, whichwas guarded with an helmet, called iii Greek Tncncs^pxXei/xy «^avd?,^o;, &c. This was sometimes composed of brass or other metals,as Menelaussin Homer; Qnxmro ^ukKeiyiv,- He puts his headpiece on, composd of brjss. And very frequently of the skins
. 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. et us take an account of their defensive arms, as fitted tothe several members of the body, beginning at the head, whichwas guarded with an helmet, called iii Greek Tncncs^pxXei/xy «^avd?,^o;, &c. This was sometimes composed of brass or other metals,as Menelaussin Homer; Qnxmro ^ukKeiyiv,- He puts his headpiece on, composd of brjss. And very frequently of the skins of beasts, which gave occasionto those different appellations, derived from the uanies of animals,whereby it is signified in Homer, as ixT«^£>j, rxv^urtf uXaxiKiHj asovtej),eclyityif and others, of which none is more common than kvvU, whichwas composed of a dogs skin : Eustathius tells us it was xoTci^toixvuvj a zvater-dog, and was so frequently used by tlie ancients, thatwe find it sometimes taken for the name of a hehnet, though con-sisting of another sort of matter. Thus Homer ; *? Luclanus Anaclinrside. t Plutardms PelopJdo. * Euripidis Schuliastcs. Iliad. x. W/ U p Si^. n l-i:iur,atJh lt\1:njjim-s. EdznbiwaPv FublixhecL by Doi^ Sttrhtijf & Slade-1818. v> omyf Of tlic Militajy ^ffairs of Grcece, Tuuftltiv IIo put on *s hclmct, of a bulTs Iiidc madc. skins wcrc alwavs woni witli thcir liair on; and to rciidor ilicni niore terriblc and rriglitful, thc tccth vvcrc frcqucnlly placcd gi inning on their cncniics. Thus thc soldicr hi Virgil ^ : Ipsc pedcs tegnien torqucns ivimane leonis,Terribili impcxum seta cnm dentibiis albis,Jndutus capiti, sic regia tccta subibat. Himself on foot a lion*s monstrous hidc Throws ocr his head and sliouldcrs, with white tcethj And shaggy fur : thus stalks into thc hall. trapp. Homer likewise arms Ulysses iu the same manner; XfKpi 2t 01 KVVitlV K%(^<plV l6nKt *Pi»5 To<»jT/i», TiiXiffiv B ivroadiv l/neiTiv EvTlTaTO ^
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