peltast

The peltast was relaxed, so there was no great difficulty.

I saw the peltast who had not spoken glance at the other as if to say he means it, and then at the crowd.

Often, the mythical Amazons (women warriors) are shown with peltast equipment.

The peltast who had spoken before said, "Do you believe him, Lochage?

A type of soldier of this period called the peltast probably originated in Thrace.

He wrote a version of his rules designed for solid figures which was published as "Peltast and Pila" in 1976.

There was a team observing her, a reaction-squad and snipers with heavy Peltast rifles, so she was probably quite safe.

Later references to peltasts may not in fact refer to their style of equipment as the word peltast became a synonym for mercenary.

The peltast smiled uncertainly.

The type of infantryman called a peltast (peltastēs) is far more heavily referenced in contemporary sources than the "spearman".

Such words as peltast, androgyn, and exultant are substitutions of this kind, and are intended to be suggestive rather than definitive.

The Macedonian Peltast corps was the equivalent of the Hypaspists in Alexander the Great's army.

In the 4th century BCE, the main type of mercenary infantry was the peltast, to the extent that this became a synonym for mercenaries in general.

In 413 BC, during the Peloponnesian War, the Athenians hired 1300 Diies (peltast) to participate in the expedition to Sicily.

Mines, and snipers, a lot of mem with Peltast rifles" - which had considerable antivehicle capacity - "we lost the armored car, and the mine-clearing vehicle is dam- aged.

At the beginning of the day he had not been able to wear plate armor; this disadvantage was unexpectedly used by an anonymous allied peltast, who killed him with a well-thrown javelin.

Appendix 3: Monsters of the Moonshaes (pages 41-47) details monsters the bonebat, the helmed horror, the nishruu, the nyth, the peltast, the shee, and the weredragon.

The peltast said, "But Lochage-" shooting such a look of hatred toward me that I thought he might attempt to do me some harm when I left the bartizan.

In warfare, the pilos type helmet was often worn by the peltast light infantry, in conjunction with the exomis, but it was also worn by the heavy infantry .

The concept of a skirmishing screen is a very old one and was already well-established by Greek and Roman times in the form, for example, of the Greek peltast and the Roman velites.

Hans Delbrück however estimates the number of Persian cavalry at 12,000 because of management issues and Persian infantry (peltast) less than that of the Greek heavy infantry and the Greek mercenaries at 8,000.

The term peltast has also been coined by Diodorus Siculus to describe the Iphicratean hoplite, a type of hoplite introduced by the Athenian general Iphicrates, equipped with a lighter armor, a longer spear and a smaller shield.