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four-hide shield worn by Ulysses in the cloister battle

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four-hide shield worn by Ulysses in the cloister battle
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After setting aside his bow, Ulysses hangs a four-hide shield about his shoulders.

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“he set the bow to stand against the end wall of the house by the door post, and hung a shield four hides thick about his shoulders”

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“hung a shield four hides thick about his shoulders”

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Book 22 · Passage 14

Telemachus did as his father said, and went off to the store room where the armour was kept. He chose four shields, eight spears, and four brass helmets with horse-hair plumes. He brought them with all speed to his father, and armed himself first, while the stockman and the swineherd also put on their armour, and took their places near Ulysses. Meanwhile Ulysses, as long as his arrows lasted, had been shooting the suitors one by one, and they fell thick on one another: when his arrows gave out, he set the bow to stand against the end wall of the house by the door post, and hung a shield four hides thick about his shoulders; on his comely head he set his helmet, well wrought with a crest of horse-hair that nodded menacingly above it, {168} and he grasped two redoubtable bronze-shod spears.