10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CORSLET»
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Andrew Lang. back was not covered by the shield, and received a thrust at close
quarters, the corslet was pierced more easily than the pad of paper which was
said to have been used as secret armour in a duel by the Master of Sinclair (1708
).
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The Selected Works of Andrew Lang
the spear of Antilochus perforates the corslet of a charioteer (XIII. 371, 397). A few
lines later Diomede's spear reaches the midriff of Hypsenor. No corslet is here
mentioned, but neither is the shield mentioned (this constantly occurs), and we ...
3
Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC: A Study in ...
Corslet Although clearly a major percentage of the spoils won throughout the
Persian Wars was defensive armour, only the corslet of Masistios was sufficiendy
interesting to be specifically mentioned (Hdt. 9.22.2; Paus. 1.27.1).84 By the time
of ...
4
The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the ...
Apparently some infantrymen in the Late Bronze Age wore a simplified, much
less expensive version of the charioteer's corslet: the Luxor relief of the Battle of
Kadesh portrays a line of Hittite auxiliaries in full stride, and most of them wear ...
Note particularly that the arming of Odysseus is minutely described there, yet he
wears no corslet ; but in the next book, in one single line, A 436, he has one.
Twenty lines farther on the corslet has again disappeared (see 456-8). And this ...
6
The Iliad (2 Voll. Indivisibili)
Note particularly that the arming of Odysseus is minutely described there, yet he
wears no corslet ; but in the next book, in one single line, A 436, he has one.
Twenty lines farther on the corslet has again disappeared (see 456-8). And this ...
7
Memoirs of Science and the Arts, Or, An Abridgement of the ...
2. Mutilla europæa. M. bristly, black; corslet tawny; rings of the abdomen
bordered with white. (Apterous). M. bristly, black ; corslet tawny ; abdomen with
two white bands. (Winged). All France, but rare. 3. Mutilla errythrocephaia. M.
briPJy, black ...
8
Belted Heroes and Bound Women: The Myth of the Homeric ...
If what is referred to as the thorex is the bronze two-piece corslet worn by the
typical archaic hoplite, there is at this point a difficult problem of equipment
incompatibility. There is no evidence that the earliest Greek bronze corslet of the
bell type ...
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History and the Homeric Iliad
At the most, we should learn nothing about the corslet itself, but only something
about an unidentified object, qe-ro2, which may have had some connexion with a
corslet (note that the QE which is sometimes included in the corslet-ideogram ...
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Memoirs of science and the arts: or, An abridgement of the ...
M. bristly, black ; corslet tawny ; rings of the abdomen bordered with white. (
Apterous). M. bristly, black; corstet tawny; abdomen with two white bands. (
Winged). All France, but rare. 3. Mutilla erythrocephaia. M. briflly, black; antennæ,
head, and ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CORSLET»
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Corslet Farm ... Perrie took this photo of his dad John and dog Pundie "as a giant snowball hurtles toward them" at Corslet Farm, Lanarkshire. «BBC News, Feb 15»
“Young girl, I declare you are not like most men”: retranslating The …
a helmet and corslet before the hall-doors. At first Angantyr pretends that he doesn't have the sword, next, he warns (truthfully) that the sword ... «OUPblog, Sep 14»
Six overlooked yet important characters from The Lord of the Rings
His scarlet robes were tattered, his corslet of overlapping brazen plates was rent and hewn, his black plaits of hair braided with gold were ... «TheOneRing.net, Jul 13»
Appeal after armed robbery at Currie Scotmid
... would ask members of the public to get in touch if they remember seeing any suspicious activity in or around the Corslet Place area last night. «Edinburgh Evening News, Jul 13»
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Jack-chi puppy Bella climbs all over nine-year-old Cameron in front of Rhoda Charlton, of Corslet, in Rosemarkie. 9 Images. View Slideshow. «Inverness Courier, Nov 12»
