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The Lycians furnished fifty ships; they wore cuirasses and greaves, and carried cornel-wood bows and unfeathered arrows and javelins; goat-skins hung from their shoulders, and they wore on their heads caps crowned with feathers; they also had daggers and scimitars. The Lycians are from +Crete [25,35.166] (region), Greece, Europe Crete and were once called Termilae; they took their name from Lycus son of Pandion, an Athenian.
The Lycians furnished fifty ships; they wore cuirasses and greaves, and carried cornel-wood bows and unfeathered arrows and javelins; goat-skins hung from their shoulders, and they wore on their heads caps crowned with feathers; they also had daggers and scimitars. The Lycians are from +Crete [25,35.166] (region), Greece, Europe Crete and were once called Termilae; they took their name from Lycus son of Pandion, an Athenian.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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