04-03-2009, 03:37 AM
Quote:Sorry, my usage of the term was careless - you are quite correct that 'Peltasts' was the elite unit of the phalanx, and to avoid confusion I should have used another term for the Light/medium troops who were mercenary and Thureos armed ( but who are referred to by the old term 'peltasts' in the manuals). Technically 'mistophoroi' or 'thureophoroi' is probably better.....
Sorry to pick at this debate, but why do you think the troops referred to as "peltasts" in the manuals were thureophoroi?
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
