Noun:

కటిలో కటినము, వాస్టీ కుహరం, విస్తారమైన స్థితి,

peltas's Usage Examples:

important infantry reforms that revolutionized ancient Greek warfare by regularizing light-armed peltasts.

However, many mercenary peltasts were probably recruited in Greece.

Coelogyne peltastes Rchb.

consisting of a pool with an unusual design of islands consisting of four peltas, typical moon-shaped shields of the Amazons, all surfaces being originally.

A peltast (Greek: πελταστής peltastes) was a type of light infantryman, originating in Thrace and Paeonia, and named after the kind of shield he carried.

is derived from the Ancient Greek lamprós (λαμπρος) meaning "bright" and peltas (πελτας) meaning "shield", after the sheen of their scales.

(katapeltes, καταπέλτης), because it could pierce or "go through" (kata) shields (peltas).

Olynthian territory, Teleutias ran into difficulty when a group of his peltasts rashly crossed over a river and were attacked by Olynthian cavalry.

The peltast often served as a skirmisher in Hellenic and Hellenistic armies.

The Macedonian contribution to this force was 10,000 phalangists, 3,000 peltasts, and 300 cavalry, a figure supplemented by the addition of 1,000 Agrianes, 1,600 Illyrians commanded by Demetrius of Pharos, and 1,000 Galatians, as well as 3,000 other mercenary infantry and 300 cavalry.

The treatise focuses on the phalanx, its divisions, and its position, and discusses other topics, such as peltasts and cavalry.

The domed Rodrigues giant tortoise (Cylindraspis peltastes) is an extinct species of giant tortoise in the family Testudinidae.