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1 A people who lived on the mountainous northern frontier of Laconia. This special corps, considered apparently the cream of the army, formed the vanguard of an advance and the rearguard of a retreat. Thought by some to be lightarmed, though this is doubted by Kromayer-Veith on the strength of this and other passages (p. 39, Heerwesen und Kriegsführung der Griechen und Römer, Munich, 1928). (See Thuc. 5.67.1).
2 For the campaign of this year (actually 378) see Xen. Hell. 5.4.35-41, Xen. Ages. 26.
3 For the role of Chabrias see Polyaenus 2.1.2;Nepos Chabrias 1; Dem. 20.76.
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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), EXE´RCITUS
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), SCIRI´TIS
- Smith's Bio, Cha'brias
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- LSJ, Σκι_ρῖται
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- LSJ, παρα-κέλευμα
- LSJ, παραμήκ-ης
- LSJ, ψι_λ-ι^κός