WAR IN THE HELLENISTIC WORLD

epistathmeia (billeting), 124
eschatia (land at the border of the
territory), 15, 51
euandria (manliness), 50
euangelia (festival of good tidings),
231–2
euergetes (benefactor), 37
euexia (good physical condition), 50–1
euhoplia (good maintenance and use of
arms), 23, 50
eutaxia (discipline), 23, 49–51, 53,
92–3
gymnasiarchos (director of the
gymnasium), 34, 50–1
helepolis (siege machine), 103
helots (serfs in Sparta), 22
hemerodromos (long-distance courier),
48
hipparches (commander of the cavalry),
32, 43
hippodioktas (horse rider or trainer),
91
hippotai (cavalry), 22
homonoia (concord), 53, 153–4, 230
hoplomachein (training in the use of
shield and lance), 50
hoplomachos (master-at-arms), 97–8,
101
hybris (insolence), 208
hypaithroi (soldiers in the countryside),
89, 116
isoteleis (privileged foreigners), 84,
249
isotheos (godlike), 72
Kallinikos (the one with the fair
victories), 60, 73
katadrome (incursion), 232
katapaltaphetes (artillerist), 79, 84, 98
Keraunos (the thunderbolt, royal
nickname), 60, 66
kestros (sling), 99
kleros (lot), 85
klerouchos (settler), 14, 85
koinon (association), 95
SUBJECT INDEX
302
kosmoi (military officials in Crete), 21,
31
kryptoi (patrol in Attika), 51, 116
leistes (pirate), 134
liturgy (financial responsibility for a
public work imposed upon wealthy
citizens), 40, 115, 120
machimoi (native Egyptian soldiers),
249
mantis (interpreter of divine signs), 145
mechanopoioi, mechanikoi (engineers),
79
misthophora (providing wages for
soldiers), 116
neaniskoi (young warriors), 46, 50–1,
98, 134
neotas (police troop in Crete), 51
neoteroi (younger citizens), 44, 46
Nikator (victorious), 60
Nikephoros (the one who brings
victory), 60, 230
ochyroma (fort), 126
opsonia (pay of mercenaries), 84, 87
organopoioi (engineers), 79
orophylax (mountain patrol), 51, 116
orphanika (affairs or property of
orphans), 87
paradoxon (unexpected), 194, 212
paraphylattein (protect), 70
paraphylax, paraphylakitai (guard of the
frontier), 32, 89, 116
parastatheis (comrade in battle), 55
paroikoi (foreign residents), 86
pathos (suffering), 212
peirates (pirate), 134
peltastes (light-armed), 21, 68, 79
peltophoroi (light-armed), 22
pentaeteric (festival which takes place
every four years), 230
perioikoi (free, non-citizen inhabitants
of Lakonia), 125
peripeteia (sudden change of fortune),
199, 207–8