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Menelaus’s cuirass

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Canonical name
Menelaus’s cuirass
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Editorial note
The cuirass pierced by the arrow and removed from over the wound.

Aliases

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double cuirass

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Claims

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·Direct

Menelaus’s double cuirass is cunningly worked and is pierced by the arrow beneath the outer belt.

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“the golden buckles of the belt that passed over his double cuirass were fastened, so the arrow struck the belt that went tightly round him. It went right through this and through the cuirass of cunning workmanship”
·Reported

Menelaus identifies his cuirass as another protective layer beneath the outer belt.

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“under this my cuirass”
·Direct

Menelaus’s cuirass lies beneath the burnished outer belt and is undone.

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“He undid the burnished belt, and beneath this the cuirass”
·Direct

Menelaus’s corslet breastplate deflects Helenus’s arrow.

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“hit the breastplate of Menelaus’s corslet, but the arrow glanced from off it.”

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·Direct
“the belt that passed over his double cuirass”
·Direct
“beneath this the cuirass”

Passage preview

Book 4 · Passage 9

But the blessed gods did not forget thee, O Menelaus, and Jove’s daughter, driver of the spoil, was the first to stand before thee and ward off the piercing arrow. She turned it from his skin as a mother whisks a fly from off her child when it is sleeping sweetly; she guided it to the part where the golden buckles of the belt that passed over his double cuirass were fastened, so the arrow struck the belt that went tightly round him. It went right through this and through the cuirass of cunning workmanship; it also pierced the belt beneath it, which he wore next his skin to keep out darts or arrows; it was this that served him in the best stead, nevertheless the arrow went through it and grazed the top of the skin, so that blood began flowing from the wound.