 However, the extent to which it was used can not be fully determined as the texts were not accurate accounts of specific time periods.It was used by the armies of Alexander the Great, and its mention by other sources such as Herodotus (2.182, 3.47, 7.63), Livy (4.19.2–20.7), Strabo (Geography, 3.3.6, 13.1.10), and many other minor sources.Very few details of the linothorax's construction are found in Homer and other authors of this era.