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52 ADDITIONAL NOTES.
of heroic personages,3 but also in the historical accounts of times much nearer to our own
era. In the army, for instance, of the unfortunate Perseus, the last king of Macedonia, his
chosen phalanxes, previous to the battle of Pydna, glittered in purple and in armour of
gold.4
8 The buckler of Nestor, for instance, was of pure gold. II. VIII. v. 192 and foil., where Hector presses his
horses Xanthos and Podargos, to carry off, if possible, the magnificent armour :
aW ifofiapruTOv Ka\ (TirevSerov, 6<ppa Xafiuy/xEV
acnriSa Nsoroptrjv, rijg vvv kXeoc ovpavbv ikej,
iraaav \pvatiriv ifitvai, icavovag re ical avrrjv.
* Plutarch. Vita P. ^Emilii, p. 264, E. : — — zirl St tovtoiq ajr\p.a rpirov ol XoyaSeg avribv MaiceSovwv apery Kai
riXiidq to KaOapwraTov, a<TT/oa7rrovrec linyfivaoiQ nwXoiQ kcu vtovpydiQ tpoiviicimv.
of heroic personages,3 but also in the historical accounts of times much nearer to our own
era. In the army, for instance, of the unfortunate Perseus, the last king of Macedonia, his
chosen phalanxes, previous to the battle of Pydna, glittered in purple and in armour of
gold.4
8 The buckler of Nestor, for instance, was of pure gold. II. VIII. v. 192 and foil., where Hector presses his
horses Xanthos and Podargos, to carry off, if possible, the magnificent armour :
aW ifofiapruTOv Ka\ (TirevSerov, 6<ppa Xafiuy/xEV
acnriSa Nsoroptrjv, rijg vvv kXeoc ovpavbv ikej,
iraaav \pvatiriv ifitvai, icavovag re ical avrrjv.
* Plutarch. Vita P. ^Emilii, p. 264, E. : — — zirl St tovtoiq ajr\p.a rpirov ol XoyaSeg avribv MaiceSovwv apery Kai
riXiidq to KaOapwraTov, a<TT/oa7rrovrec linyfivaoiQ nwXoiQ kcu vtovpydiQ tpoiviicimv.