School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . ,Te{>x^; ottAo), arms, armour. ARMA. Homer describes in various passages anentire suit of armour, and we observe thatit consisted of the same portions whichwere used by the Greek soldiers ever , the order of putting them on isalways the same. The heavy-armed war-rior, having already a tunic around hisbody, and preparing for combat, puts on,—1. his greaves (Kj/77^t5es, ocreae); 2. hiscuirass (^wpa^, lorica), to which belongedthe ixirprj underneath, and the zone (^cii/T;,^coaTTjp, cinguluni), above; 3. his sword(^i<pos
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . ,Te{>x^; ottAo), arms, armour. ARMA. Homer describes in various passages anentire suit of armour, and we observe thatit consisted of the same portions whichwere used by the Greek soldiers ever , the order of putting them on isalways the same. The heavy-armed war-rior, having already a tunic around hisbody, and preparing for combat, puts on,—1. his greaves (Kj/77^t5es, ocreae); 2. hiscuirass (^wpa^, lorica), to which belongedthe ixirprj underneath, and the zone (^cii/T;,^coaTTjp, cinguluni), above; 3. his sword(^i<pos, ensis, gladius), hung on the left sideof his body by means of a belt which passedover the right shoulder; 4. the large roundshield (aaKos, aairis, clipeus, scutum), sup-ported in the same manner; 5. his helmet(^Kopvs, Kvuer], cassis, galea); 6. he took hisspear (eyxos, S6pv, hasta), or, in many cases,two spears. The form and use of these por-tions are described in separate articles, undertheir I^atin names. The annexed cut ex-hibits them OEEEK SOLDIER. ARM A. Those who were defended in the mannerwhich has now been represented are calledby Homer aspistae (acnriaTai), from theirgreat shield {axnris) ; also angemachi (07x6-fxaxoi), because they fought hand to handwith their adversaries; but much morecommonly promachi (TrpS/xaxoi), becausethey occupied the front of the army. In later times, the heavy-armed soldierswere called hnpUtae (^TrAtrot), because theterm hopla (ovrAo) more especially de-noted the defensive armour, the shield andthorax. By wearing these they were dis-tinguished from the light-armed (j\iiKoi,&voTr\oi, yv/xuoi, yvfivriTai, yvfivriTes^, who,instead of being defended by the shield andthorax, had a much slighter covering, some-times consisting of skins, and sometimes ofleather or cloth ; and instead of the swordor lance, they commonly fought with darts,stones, bows and arrows, or slings. Besides the heavy and light-armed sol-diers, another description of
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