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Definition of Peltast
1. Noun. a type of light infantry units in Ancient Greece who often served as skirmishers ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Peltast
1. a soldier of ancient Greece [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peltast
Literary usage of Peltast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hannibal: A History of the Art of War Among the Carthaginians and Romans by Theodore Ayrault Dodge (1891)
"Whether the phalanx had, in addition to the hoplite, a somewhat less heavily
armed soldier, like the Greek peltast, is not known. ..."
2. Greece: II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens by George Grote (1900)
"The peltast both before and after ... to lengthen both the two offensive weapons
which the peltast carried, before his time, — the javelin, and the iword. ..."
3. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities by Arthur Hamilton Smith, British Museum Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1900)
"A wounded Greek peltast has sunk down to a sitting position on the ground.
A comrade, also a peltast, supports him under the shoulder with his right hand, ..."
4. History of Greece by George Grote (1859)
"The peltast both before and after ... to lengthen both the two offensive weapons
which the peltast carried, before his time, — the javelin, and the sword. ..."
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