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Definition of Peltasts
1. peltast [n] - See also: peltast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peltasts
Literary usage of Peltasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1869)
"that there were no peltasts in Greece prior to ... But Grecian peltasts existed
before the time of ..."
2. The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis: With Notes Adapted to the by Xenophon, Morris Hicky Morgan (1896)
"The peltasts among the Ten Thousand were largely Thra- ... In contrast with
hoplites, the peltasts were detailed to service that required celerity of ..."
3. A Day in Old Athens: A Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis (1914)
"The Cavalry and the peltasts. — There are certain divisions of the army besides
the hoplites and this somewhat ineffective light infantry. ..."
4. The Spartan and Theban Supremacies by Charles Sankey (1884)
"... the one side to Sikyon, on the becomes other to Corinth—and were guarding the
for- leader of tresses. Mercenaries, however, were employed peltasts, ..."
5. Xenophon by Xenophon (1918)
"Now they were by no means unaware that there were many peltasts and many hoplites
in Corinth ; but on account of their previous successes they ..."
6. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1888)
"It was now that the Athenian Iphi- B-°- SM- hate's, in the former place, began
to distinguish Effective himself at the head of his mercenary peltasts, whom, ..."
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