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XENOPHON's TREATISE 



About the middle, and the hips, and the adjacent 

 parts, let there be a fufficient number of Ikirts to de- 

 fend them. 



If the left-arm is wounded, the rider is difabled: 

 we therefore recommend the piece of armour lately 

 invented, and denominated from the hand ; for it co- 

 vers the flioulder, the arm, the elbow, and the hand, 

 as low as the bridle ; it will alfo ftretch out and bend, 

 and, moreover, fecures the part under the arms, which 

 is left defencelefs by the coat of mail. 



The right-arm muft be lifted up, when the horfe- 

 man intends to fling his lance, or llrike the enemy. 

 It fhould not be confined with the breaft-plate, but, in- 

 ftead thereof, fhould have jointed armour, which may 

 unfold upon flretching the arm, and clofe upon con- 

 tra6ting it. It feems better alfo that it fhould be 

 drawn upon the arm, as boots are upon the legs, than 

 fattened to the mail. The part that is bared, upon 

 raifmg the arm, fhould be covered with calves fkin, or 

 brafs ; otherwife a dangerous confequence might hap- 

 pen. 



As the fafety of the rider depends, in a great de- 

 gree, upon that of the horfe, let him too be furniflied 

 with an head-piece, breaft-plate, and armour for his 

 fides, which will likewife cover the rider's thighs. 

 Above all, the belly and flanks fhould be guarded, for 

 they are dangerous parts, and liable to be mortally 

 wounded. 



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