[490] Penthesilea and her Amazons are again post-Homeric personages, who also seem to have figured in the Aethiopis, another title of the poem being probably Amazonia. Priam speaks of himself as having fought against Amazons invading Phrygia, Il. 3. 188. For ‘lunatis peltis,’ which were part of the national armour of various parts of Asia, and therefore attributed to the Amazons, see Dict. A. ‘pelta.’
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