targeteers

The number of his host thou couldst not reckon to a sum exact, for it was beyond one's comprehension; many a knight was there, and serried ranks of targeteers, and archers not a few, with countless swarms of light-armed troops, in Thracian garb arrayed, to bear them company.

Rhesus 2008

There I saw Tydeus and his serried ranks of targeteers hurling their Aetolian spears into the opening at the top of the turrets, with such good aim that our men fled and left the beetling battlements: but thy son rallied them once more, as a huntsman cheers his hounds, and made them man the towers again.

The Phoenissae 2008

The number of his host thou couldst not reckon to a sum exact, for it was beyond one's comprehension; many a knight was there, and serried ranks of targeteers, and archers not a few, with countless swarms of light-armed troops, in Thracian garb arrayed, to bear them company.

Rhesus 2008

There I saw Tydeus and his serried ranks of targeteers hurling their Aetolian spears into the opening at the top of the turrets, with such good aim that our men fled and left the beetling battlements: but thy son rallied them once more, as a huntsman cheers his hounds, and made them man the towers again.

The Phoenissae 2008

Meanwhile Brasidas advanced a little with the rest of his army, and then halting, sent forward a hundred targeteers, that as soon as any of the gates were opened, and the signal agreed upon displayed, they might rush in first.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

He also undertook to terminate the war in Chalcidicè, promising that he would persuade Sitalces to send the Athenians an army of Thracian horsemen and targeteers.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

They were assisted by a few targeteers, who came from the district called Crusis.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Their next step was to raise the fire-signal according to agreement; they then received the rest of the targeteers through the gates by the market-place.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

At length, not knowing how to escape from his own words, he undertook the expedition, and, coming forward, said that he was not afraid of the Lacedaemonians, and that he would sail without taking a single man from the city if he were allowed to have the Lemnian and Imbrian forces now at Athens, the auxiliaries from Aenus, who were targeteers, and four hundred archers from other places.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

The engagement was scarcely over when another body of targeteers from Olynthus came up to their aid.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007