Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 8 (Θ）, line 267

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[267] This mode of fighting is characteristically oriental. In the Assyrian sculptures, especially in sieges, we often find a warrior with a large shield and spear accompanied by an archer who crouches down and shoots from under the shield. The same practice is also found, though rarely, on the old Greek vases, and is recorded in the verb “ὑπασπίζειν”, to be shield-bearer, and its derivatives in Pindar, Herod., Euripides, etc.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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