Pausanias on Achaean armament, ca. 200 BCE

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

It seems logican,after peltasts(the old usual ones thowing javelins) were replaced by thyreophoroi. The phalangites were trained to fight with different sized pikes,right? Were they also trained in thowing a javelin? if so,they were peltasts just like the old ones,only more "polymorphic"(is the such a word:lol: ) trained for any possible occasion. If they were called peltast before the introduction of thyrophoroi,then how common peltast were called? But here we're not arguing about their real name but how later writers refer to them and what they mean,right?
Khaire
Giannis