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χλαίνας: cf. Carlyle's story (Fr. Rev. ed. Fletcher, iii. 165-6) of the breeches made from the skins of the victims of the Terror

βαίτας, ‘peasant cloaks’ made also of sewn skins.

ἦν: the tense seems to imply that H. is speaking of a quiver cover which he had seen.

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