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Balearic slingers
The slingers of the Balearic Islands, famed mercenaries, here surpassed by the Achaean slingers of Aegium, Patrae, and Dyme.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 38 §20 Balearic
The slingers of the Balearic Islands, famed mercenaries surpassed here by the Achaeans.