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'Arch&ologh Attic a. Lib. 6. Cap, 2$ 3 21
pend to strike their knees, they counted it luckj : but if they
struck it with their Speare, 'twas an ill signe. The moil fa*
mous shicld that ever I read of in heathen writers, was that os
Jupiter lAegiocbiu, named 'A/jk, because be covered it with the
sksn of his nurie the goate called Amrith&a, this shield he be-
llowed upon Minerva.who ingraved upon it the Stone-making
Qiajlomfhiig head of Medusa. Whether tint Scutumsacrum
Which Alixander is (aid to have stoloe, and to have carried ai-
waies before him, were the same with this or no, I know nor*
Their shields when they laid them up in the Temples ( as the
fashion was also for the other sorts of armes ) they suffered
not to have their ^'pntrgs sondles, ( orsome such necessary ap-
purtenance ) that lb in case there should be any insurreclion,
they might be the lesse ready for use ; which was the cause
why he in the Poet cryed out so as he did, wheu he saw it 0-
t her wise.
Tor sates another a little before.
The siats os CMaile were of three sorts, the ficst &uAt which
reached from the navell to the knees the second 'Hp&tz&auor,
which covered halse the brtst, such as Poljxnu* reports to
have bin much used by the Souldiers os Alexander the Great.
The third , which^ reached from the shoulders to the
navel!, so called &s ra 3hW »p«y , frorI, pre[erVi„g the heart, j
and the bresl: from which peculiar office os it, Ariftophanes
in Jclumenfi&us , borrowes the word 3s>p»5|«&u, for to signify
to be well nigh drunke, ( as we say when we have well eaten
or drunken , that we are well armed against the cold ) and
ttK^SttgaKOj ( to signify a.K&yi%v2V; drunk, to the toppe. Now a
Thorax was either wV, all os onepiece,p/aine like i&rU %wr
nila tunica'. . else aWic/YJ©- , with chaines or plaitcs of iron
put between the leather (as itisinourCoatesof Maile. )
The hat her I say , because it was usually made os a hide (?3
S s
pend to strike their knees, they counted it luckj : but if they
struck it with their Speare, 'twas an ill signe. The moil fa*
mous shicld that ever I read of in heathen writers, was that os
Jupiter lAegiocbiu, named 'A/jk, because be covered it with the
sksn of his nurie the goate called Amrith&a, this shield he be-
llowed upon Minerva.who ingraved upon it the Stone-making
Qiajlomfhiig head of Medusa. Whether tint Scutumsacrum
Which Alixander is (aid to have stoloe, and to have carried ai-
waies before him, were the same with this or no, I know nor*
Their shields when they laid them up in the Temples ( as the
fashion was also for the other sorts of armes ) they suffered
not to have their ^'pntrgs sondles, ( orsome such necessary ap-
purtenance ) that lb in case there should be any insurreclion,
they might be the lesse ready for use ; which was the cause
why he in the Poet cryed out so as he did, wheu he saw it 0-
t her wise.
Tor sates another a little before.
The siats os CMaile were of three sorts, the ficst &uAt which
reached from the navell to the knees the second 'Hp&tz&auor,
which covered halse the brtst, such as Poljxnu* reports to
have bin much used by the Souldiers os Alexander the Great.
The third , which^ reached from the shoulders to the
navel!, so called &s ra 3hW »p«y , frorI, pre[erVi„g the heart, j
and the bresl: from which peculiar office os it, Ariftophanes
in Jclumenfi&us , borrowes the word 3s>p»5|«&u, for to signify
to be well nigh drunke, ( as we say when we have well eaten
or drunken , that we are well armed against the cold ) and
ttK^SttgaKOj ( to signify a.K&yi%v2V; drunk, to the toppe. Now a
Thorax was either wV, all os onepiece,p/aine like i&rU %wr
nila tunica'. . else aWic/YJ©- , with chaines or plaitcs of iron
put between the leather (as itisinourCoatesof Maile. )
The hat her I say , because it was usually made os a hide (?3
S s