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3 24 Arch&ologU Attica, Lih. 6, Cap. 4,
w saith it was an iron with a (harp taile like a snake, to be sen
in the ground , and hollow heads to set the Speate in , srom
Lacerta a JLte-a^which it sesembled. When they came
home, they set it in a long wooden caje, made os pnrpose by a
pillar of the house.
A1 rT j "E>%'9" £ p e.^)f! ssiV'1' ®gk '"wo- wx&v
saies Homer, and #rg*7 has the like.
t/£», 12« Exiti qu& mediii ingeni adnixa column*
<ss£dibm astabat, validam vi corripit hassam.
The cusiome first to vibrate the Speare before they
used it 1 to try the strength of it, was so consbntly kept, thaE
iy^omrx©-^ a sixke-spiare , came at length to bean ordinary
word both in Homer and other Poets to signify a Souldier.
When the Greeks began the nse of Bowes, I know not.- but tc
seemes they had such things.and Hefjthim in the word iW</«,
saies they made the sirings of Ho?(eshaire. Swords likewise
they had,which they used to hang by their sides, M -nhttuuvcov
by belts, or sirings of leather, as they did the sbields: and the
%•m y~ sirings came over the shoulders as ours,do.
TJsRssi * Slew? t Si (Juv dupi (U^*i'Jtf0V f'W'•
What other offensive armesthey had 1 know not. But the
Scholiast upon Euripides, in one place reports, tbataboutthe
time oftheTheban Warre/hey excelled mosi in the deserfve;
and that the Barbarians were better at the offer,sive.
CAP. IV.
DeritU excipiendi legates,indicendi Bellum,co»(ulindi deoss
obfervandi dies, & tra\iciendisiuvios.
A S carefull and as cunning as they were in Warlike af-
jfl sairs, I cannot find but that they did proper} stqui qua pi-
getinchoarty btare a greater affection to Peace: asmayapeare
in
w saith it was an iron with a (harp taile like a snake, to be sen
in the ground , and hollow heads to set the Speate in , srom
Lacerta a JLte-a^which it sesembled. When they came
home, they set it in a long wooden caje, made os pnrpose by a
pillar of the house.
A1 rT j "E>%'9" £ p e.^)f! ssiV'1' ®gk '"wo- wx&v
saies Homer, and #rg*7 has the like.
t/£», 12« Exiti qu& mediii ingeni adnixa column*
<ss£dibm astabat, validam vi corripit hassam.
The cusiome first to vibrate the Speare before they
used it 1 to try the strength of it, was so consbntly kept, thaE
iy^omrx©-^ a sixke-spiare , came at length to bean ordinary
word both in Homer and other Poets to signify a Souldier.
When the Greeks began the nse of Bowes, I know not.- but tc
seemes they had such things.and Hefjthim in the word iW</«,
saies they made the sirings of Ho?(eshaire. Swords likewise
they had,which they used to hang by their sides, M -nhttuuvcov
by belts, or sirings of leather, as they did the sbields: and the
%•m y~ sirings came over the shoulders as ours,do.
TJsRssi * Slew? t Si (Juv dupi (U^*i'Jtf0V f'W'•
What other offensive armesthey had 1 know not. But the
Scholiast upon Euripides, in one place reports, tbataboutthe
time oftheTheban Warre/hey excelled mosi in the deserfve;
and that the Barbarians were better at the offer,sive.
CAP. IV.
DeritU excipiendi legates,indicendi Bellum,co»(ulindi deoss
obfervandi dies, & tra\iciendisiuvios.
A S carefull and as cunning as they were in Warlike af-
jfl sairs, I cannot find but that they did proper} stqui qua pi-
getinchoarty btare a greater affection to Peace: asmayapeare
in