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manner that has yet been invented. The feet were bare, but sandalled,
and the sandals fastened with ornamented thongs. Against the sun
sometimes a sort of hat was worn, or the mantle was put over the head,
and women had thick veils wrapping them.

In time of war the armour was a helmet with a horse-hair crest, a
breast-plate on a leathern cuirass, which had strips of leather hanging
from the lower edge as far down as the knee; sometimes greaves to guard
the leathern buskin; a round shield of leather, faced with metal, and
often beautifully ornamented; and also spears, swords, daggers, and
sometimes bows and arrows. Chariots for war had been left off since the
heroic times; indeed Greece was so hilly that horses were not very much
used in battle, though riding was part of the training of a Greek, and
the Thessalian horses were much valued. Every state that had a seaboard
had its fleet of galleys, with benches of oars; but the Greek sailors
seldom ventured out of sight of land, and all that Greece or Asia Minor
did not produce was brought by the Phoenicians, the great sailors,
merchants, and slave-dealers of the Old World. They brought Tyrian
purple, gold of Ophir, silver of Spain, tin of Gaul and Britain, ivory
from India, and other such luxuries; and they also bought captives in
war, or kidnapped children on the coast, and sold them as slaves.
Ulysses' faithful swineherd was such a slave, and of royal birth; and
such was the lot of many an Israelite child, for whom its parents' "eyes
failed with looking and longing."

[Picture: Male costume] The Greeks had more power of thought and sense of
grace than any other people have ever had. They always had among them
men seeking for truth and beauty. The truth-seekers were called
philosophers, or lovers of wisdom. They were always trying to understand
about God and man, and this world, and guessing at something great, far
beyond the stories of Jupiter; and they used to gather young men round
them under the pillared porches and talk over these thoughts, or write
them in beautiful words. Almost all the sciences began with the Greeks;
their poems and their histories are wonderfully written; and they had
such great men among them that, though most of their little states were
smaller than an ordinary English county, and the whole of them together
do not make a country as large as Ireland, their history is the most
remarkable in the world, except that of the Jews. The h