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  1. Maybe Thomas Jefferson had this in mind when he said that there should be a revolution every generation.

     

    I've seen many references stating that Jefferson and a couple of other FFs were well versed in the sections of Polybius Book 6 dealing with governmental forms and the ideal constitution The implication of such statements is clear.

     

    So I think you have a pretty safe assumtion there...

  2. How was the shield gripped?

     

    Best explained by Herodotus & AD Godley's notes from the same:

     

    "Until then (the Carian's invention of grips) all who used shields carried them without these grips, and guided them with leather belts which they slung round the neck and over the left shoulder."

     

    -&-

     

    "This is the management of the Homeric

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