Crossword-Solution: VELITES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| VELITES | anagram | EVILEST, LEVITES, LIVESET |
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| light-armed troops in ancient Rome, drawn from the poorer classes | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
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greedy person
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Sentences with VELITES (5)
Grenadiers on foot and on horseback, riflemen on foot and on horseback, heavy and light artillery, dragoons and hussars, mamelukes and sailors, artificers and pontoneers, gendarmes, gendarmes d'Alite, Velites and veterans, with Italian grenadiers, riflemen, dragoons, etc., etc., compose all together a not inconsiderable army.
Grenadiers on foot and on horseback, riflemen on foot and on horseback, heavy and light artillery, dragoons and hussars, mamelukes and sailors, artificers and pontoneers, gendarmes, gendarmes d’Alite, Velites and veterans, with Italian grenadiers, riflemen, dragoons, etc., etc., compose all together a not inconsiderable army.
The velites mounted guard the whole night and day along the whole extent of the vallum, and each gate was guarded by ten men.
Men are hemmed in, overwhelmed, but not thrown into confusion.] [Footnote 25: The Greek phalanx.] [Footnote 26: The Romans lost no one as their companies entered the openings in the phalanx.] [Footnote 27: The Roman velites, light-armed soldiers, of the primitive legion before Marius, were required to stand for an instant in the intervals of the maniples, while awaiting the onset.
Marius legatus cum equitibus curabat, in utrumque latus auxiliarios equites tribunis legionum et praefectis cohortium dispertiverat, ut cum his permixti velites, quocunque accederent equitatus[266] hostium, propulsarent.