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A peltast (Ancient Greek: πελταστής, peltastēs) was a type of light infantry originating in Thrace and Paeonia and named after the kind of shield they carried. Thucydides mentions the Thracian peltasts, while Xenophon in the Anabasis distinguishes the Thracian and Greek peltast troops.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Peltast | related to Bibliography | Diodorus Siculus | 0.60 | section |
| Peltast | related to Bibliography | History | 0.60 | section |
| Peltast | related to Bibliography | Herodotus | 0.60 | section |
| Peltast | related to Bibliography | The HistoriesThucydides | 0.60 | section |
| Peltast | related to Bibliography | The History | 0.60 | section |
| Peltast | related to Bibliography | Peloponnesian War | 0.60 | section |
| Peltast | related to Bibliography | Xenophon | 0.60 | section |
| Peltast | related to Bibliography | Anabasis | 0.60 | section |
| Peltast | related to Bibliography | Hellenica | 0.60 | section |
| Peltast | related to Bibliography | Best | 0.60 | section |
| Peltast | related to Bibliography | Thracian Peltasts | 0.60 | section |
| Peltast | related to Bibliography | Greek | 0.60 | section |
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