peltast

Thrace had invented the peltast, the quick and mobile lightly armed infantryman who fought at close range with a knife or at a distance with a javelin.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Thrace had invented the peltast, the quick and mobile lightly armed infantryman who fought at close range with a knife or at a distance with a javelin.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Thrace had invented the peltast, the quick and mobile lightly armed infantryman who fought at close range with a knife or at a distance with a javelin.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

Thrace had invented the peltast, the quick and mobile lightly armed infantryman who fought at close range with a knife or at a distance with a javelin.

The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

“No, nor yet a peltast”; but he had been ordered by his messmates to drive a mule, although he was a free man.

Anabasis 2007

Unhindered by body armor, a peltast could move much more quickly than the fully armed hoplite, whose equipment was both far more heavy and far more expensive than theirs.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

Unhindered by body armor, a peltast could move much more quickly than the fully armed hoplite, whose equipment was both far more heavy and far more expensive than theirs.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

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

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

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.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

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

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980