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Ancient Greek female costume : illustrated by one hundred and twelve plates and numerous smaller illustrations ; with descriptive letterpress and descriptive passages from the works of Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Theocritus, Xenophon, Lucian, and other Greek authors (1882)

Smith, J. Moyr, 1839-1912 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 66

An illustration from Ancient Greek female costume : illustrated by one hundred and twelve plates and numerous smaller illustrations ; with descriptive letterpress and descriptive passages from the works of Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Theocritus, Xenophon, Lucian, and other Greek authors, 1882, leaf 66
to read, for Trj<i eKUTov Ovcravot,, k.t.X., From this a hundred tassels,, all golden, hang waving in the air, all well twisted, and each of the value of a hundred oxen {eKar6fA,^oLo<;).—See Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 220-230.The Eegis, properly speaking, was the hide of the goat Amal- thea,… … ()2 ANCIENT GREEK FEMALE COSTUME. the most ancient inhabitants of Greece for clothing anddefence^ we need not wonder that the goat^s skin wasemployed in the same manner; and the particular appli-cation of it which we have now to consider will beunderstood from the fact that the shields of the…

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