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Headword:
*peltastai/
Adler number: pi,954
Translated headword: peltasts
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] archers, who [sc. also] have lances.
Greek Original:*peltastai/: toco/tai, oi( tou\s custou\s kate/xontes.
Note:
cf. the
scholia to [
Plato],
Lovers 135E, where this gloss is given as an alternative to a much better one (in that it grasps, as this one does not, the crucial etymological and substantive link with the peltast's shield: see
pi 955,
pi 956).
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 February 2004@06:19:01.
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