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Salve,

On Friday, December 6, 2002, 9:51:44 PM, Jo Ann Hinkle scripsit:

>>From Michael Curtis Ford's The Ten Thousand:

>  '"The rain had now hardened into a driving sleet, and I slithered through
> the frozen mud up to Xenophon's shoulders, facing the fletching of the
> arrow, then reached down and seized the shaft,again bracing my sandle on his
> hipbone to give me added purchase.
>         "No idiot, don't pull-push!"
>         "What?"
>         "Push the fucking arrow until it comes out the other side.  You'll tear the
> muscle of my leg if you pull." '  (p. 10)

Semi-related curiosity question: when did silk (and it's
'defensive' properties) make its way to the Greek world?


dm

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