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- short sword. They carried a little pelte (or pelta) (πέλτη) shield. Hippotoxotai (ἱπποτοξόται) were mounted archers and rode ahead of the cavalry. The...
- mounted javelineers, raised between 395 and 360BC as a replacement for the hippotoxotai, who were horse archers. The introduction of the prodromoi may have formed...
- 2015-3-31] (ed. 1st source for < Tekhne Taktike >) I Syvänne, The Age of Hippotoxotai: Art of War in Roman Military Revival and Disaster (491–636) Volume 994...
- the mode of fighting of the free commoners of Scythia, who were called hippotoxotai (Ancient Gr****: ιπποτοξοται, lit. 'horse-archers') in Gr****. Serfs and...
- at the Battle of Plataea (which included Bactrians) as horse archers (hippotoxotai). Bactrian infantry is described by Herodotus as wearing caps in the...