Crossword-Solution: ZOSTER 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

And when the Barbarians were near Zoster as they sailed, then seeing the small points of rock which stretch out to sea from this part of the mainland, they thought that these were ships and fled for a good distance.

The effects are not often noticed, because, in Homer, helmet, shield, corslet, _zoster_, and greaves, as a rule prevent the shafts from harming the well-born, well-armed chiefs; the nameless host, however, fall frequently.

Evans observes that the western invaders of Egypt, under Rameses III, are armed, on the monuments, with cuirasses formed of a succession of plates, "horizontal, or rising in a double curve," while the Enkomi ivories, already referred to, corroborate the existence of corslet, _zoster_, and _zoma_ as articles of defensive armour.

THE ZOSTER, ZOMA, AND MITRE We are far from contending that it is always possible to understand Homer's descriptions of defensive armour.

The arrow lighted "where the golden buckles of the _zoster_ were clasped, and the doubled breastplate met them.