Crossword-Solution: PELTAST 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Though his men were forming on the hill, Cleon fled as fast as he could on the approach of the enemy, but was pursued and slain by a Thracian peltast.

But Cleon continued to protest, “I do not know the difference between a hoplite and a peltast; [Footnote: a heavy-armed and a light-armed soldier.] I can neither carry a lance nor sit upon a horse.” But Alcibiades shouted him down.

You shall be a peltast, with javelin and light shield; you shall fight unhampered, and surely great deeds will be related of you." Some old men whom the archer greeted respectfully passed near.

The critic is no hero: he is at best but a skipping peltast, engaged as often as not in inglorious flight.

And they followed him, one wearing the dress of Hercules, and being called Hercules, (and the man who was so called was Nicostratus, an Argive, who had been cured of the sacred disease, and he is mentioned by Ephippus, in his Peltast, where he says-- Did not Menecrates call himself a god, And Nicostratus of Argos a second Hercules?) and another followed him in the dress of Mercury, having on a cloak and bearing a caduceus, and wings besides.