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[2] ὅπλα κρείττονα τῶν βαρβαρικῶν ἡμῖν μεμηχάνηται, θώρακες καὶ κράνη καὶ κνημῖδες καὶ κραταιοὶ θυρεοί, ὑφ᾽ ὧν ὅλα τὰ σώματα ἔχομεν ἐν φυλακῇ, ξίφη τε ἀμφίστομα καὶ ἀντὶ λόγχης ὑσσός, ἄφυκτον βέλος: τὰ μὲν σκεπαστήρια, οἷα μὴ ῥαδίως ταῖς πληγαῖς εἴκειν, τὰ δ᾽ ἀμυντήρια, ὡς διὰ πάσης φέρεσθαι προβολῆς. τῶν δὲ γυμναὶ μὲν αἱ κεφαλαί, γυμνὰ δὲ τὰ στέρνα καὶ αἱ λαγόνες, γυμνοὶ δὲ μηροὶ καὶ σκέλη μέχρι ποδῶν, ἔρυμά τε οὐδὲν ἕτερον, ὅ τι μὴ θυρεοί: ἀμυντήρια δὲ
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
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