that is to say, the Carians were those who first set the fashion of fastening crests on helmets, and of making the devices which are put onto shields, and these also were the first who made handles for their shields, whereas up to that time all who were wont to use shields carried them without handles and with leathern straps to guide them, having them hung about their necks and their left shoulders.
izan ere, kariarrak izan ziren kasko gainetan mototsak lotzen eta ezkutuetan ezaugarriak ipintzen erakutsi zutenak, are, hauek izan ziren lehenak ezkutuei besalekuak ezartzen; ordurarte ezkutuak erabiltzen zituzten guztiek besalekurik gabeko ezkutuak eraman ohi baitzituzten, lepoen eta ezkerreko sorbalden inguruan jarririko larruzko uhalez gidatzen zituztelarik.