What is "peltasts"

Usage examples of "peltasts".

The peltasts came in at either end of the curving beach, javelins and bows ready.

This was going to be a fast strike, and the lighter-armed peltasts would be more useful than the clanking heavy infantry.

I saw a few men fall, but by and large the peltasts did little more than irritate the Athenians.

The peltasts in front of Philip's line turned away from the advancing Athenians and fled from the field.

He also sent Polyphantas with a small force into Boeotia, and Menippus, one of his generals, with 1000 peltasts to Chalcis.

During the night he concealed a body of caetrati, whom they call peltasts, in a position between the two camps well adapted for an ambush, and instructed Athenagoras and his cavalry in case the main battle went favourably to push their advantage, but if not, to give ground slowly and draw the enemy to the place where the ambush was set.