Only look up, as they did that were wounded, weepingly, wishingly, pitifully, cravingly; see and sigh, look upon him whom you have pierced […]

peritubular dentin

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… Tacitus (Hist. I, 79) says that the Sarmatian cataphracts were rather helpless if knocked off their horses, just like the mediaeval knights. The chief difference was, that whereas the mediaeval knight was armoured all over, the cataphract had no thigh armour under his coat, I suppose because he was riding without stirrups and grip was all-important; it may have been this which led to the invention of stirrups.