Definition of "peltast" []

• A type of light infantry units in Ancient Greece who often served as skirmishers (noun)

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