Editing Peltast (section)

===''Pelte'' shield===
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''Peltasts'' carried a crescent-shaped [[wicker]] shield called a "''pelte''" ([[Ancient Greek]] {{langx|grc|πέλτη|peltē|label=none}}; Latin: {{wikt-lang|la|pelta}}{{refn|group=N|The [[diminutives]] ''peltarion'' (Greek) and ''peltarium'' (Latin, both "little shield") are used in biology to describe unrelated structures and organisms,<ref>{{cite book|title=EOS.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AqcjAQAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales|page=231|quote= el nombre de ''peltarium'' (del griego ''peltarion'', diminutivo de ''pelte'', escudo)}} <br> {{cite book|last=Cheetham|first=Alan H.|title=Late Eocene Zoogeography of the Eastern Gulf Coast Region|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U2ciwKw-rpkC&pg=PA50|year=1963|publisher=Geological Society of America|isbn=978-0-8137-1091-4|page=50|quote= ''Poropeltarion'' [...] is derived from the Latin ''paras'', pore, and ''peltarion'', little shield.}}</ref> but published historians do not appear to have used the terms for the actual shields.  <br> The [[specific name (zoology)|specific name]]s and [[specific epithet (botany)|epithet]]s ''peltatus'', ''peltata'' and ''peltatum'' ("having a ''pelta''") are also used in [[Taxonomy (general)|taxonomy]].}}) as their main protection, hence their name. According to [[Aristotle]], the ''pelte'' was rimless and covered in goat- or sheepskin. Some literary sources imply that the shield could be round, but in art it is usually shown as crescent-shaped. It also appears in [[Scythian art]] and may have been a common type in Central Europe. The shield could be carried with a [[Strapped shield|central strap and a handgrip]] near the rim{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}} or with just a central hand-grip. It may also have had a carrying strap (or ''[[guige]]''), as [[Thracians|Thracian]] ''peltasts'' slung their shields on their backs when evading the enemy.