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front and by the belt. About the lower part of 

 the cuirass was a series of flaps of leather or felt, 

 covered with metal, but flexible, protecting the 

 hips and groin without interfering with freedom of 

 movement (see cuts on pp. 19 and 69). There 

 were also similar flaps at the right shoulder to 

 protect the part of the body which was left 

 exposed when the arm was raised to hurl the 

 javelin or to strike with the sword. But even 

 in the time of Xenophon, a sort of scale armour 

 was not unknown, the metallic scales being fas- 

 tened to a cuirass of felt. On the frieze of the 

 Parthenon one of the riders wears a combina- 

 tion of plate and scale armour, the breast and 

 back being covered by plates which are joined 

 at the sides by scale armour. Of course all parts 

 of the cuirass were often elaborately ornamented. 

 Xenophon's insistence on the point that the 

 cuirass should be made to fit the individual 

 reminds one of the conversation reported by him 

 in the "Memorabilia" (3, 10, 9 ff.) between 

 Socrates and a cuirass- maker. 



60. (Page 65.) The neck-piece is rarely seen 

 in art, but is found on certain reliefs from Perga- 

 mon (Altertiimer von Pergamon, ii, 43, 44, 2, and 

 47, 2). It comes up between the shoulder-straps, 

 and is at the back of the neck, not at the front. 

 So in the statuette of the Etruscan warrior, called 

 the Mars of Todi ; see Baumeister, taf. Ixxxix. 



