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the usual word for the cloth, k4>L7r7nov, is used. It 

 is not certain what the difference was between the 

 two ; but probably, as Schheben thinks, the e-n-oxov 

 was more extensive ; and was padded or quilted 

 (see the great Pompeian mosaic of the battle of 

 Issus) ; perhaps it was continued under the belly. 



• 67. (Page 67.) Such boots may be seen on the 

 frieze of the Parthenon and on the Orvieto vase 

 (cut facing p. 76). 



68. (Page 67.) The words "sword," "sabre," and 

 " scimitar " are used only as approximations here. 

 The Greek swords of all sorts were much shorter 

 than ours; and the two latter forms resembled 

 curved butcher' s-knives rather than swords, in our 

 sense of the word. 



69. (Page 6S.) See the Orvieto vase (cut facing 

 p. 76). 



70. (Page 6S.) The " Hipparchicus," or " Cav- 

 alry General; " see p. 71. 



71. (Page 74.) There are only three passages, 

 and two of them (Iliad, 15, 679; Odyssey, 5, 

 371) are in similes; hence they may and doubt- 

 less do refer, not to the heroic period in which 

 the scene of the poem was laid, but to the later 

 time when the verses were written. The third is 



