the Cretans

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 24 §30 of six hundred Cretans

  Six hundred Cretan mercenaries who had served under Hieronymus and owed Hannibal a kindness; their refusal to give up Hippocrates turned the Syracusan army to mutiny.

• The History of Rome, Book 31 §25 Cretans

  Cretan mercenary archers, a standing element of Hellenistic armies, here in Philip's force.

• The History of Rome, Book 33 §3 Cretans

  Cretan troops, here serving as mercenary auxiliaries on both sides.

• The History of Rome, Book 37 §30 Cretans

  Cretan archers, famed light troops, posted at the end of the Roman right wing.

• The History of Rome, Book 38 §15 Cretan

  Cretan mercenary archers and slingers serving with Attalus.

• The History of Rome, Book 39 §51 Cretan

  Cretan mercenaries, light auxiliaries serving in the Achaean army.

• The History of Rome, Book 41 §36 Cretans

  The peoples of Crete, torn by their own strife and briefly pacified by the legate Minucius.

• The History of Rome, Book 42 §19 Cretan

  The people of Crete, the large Mediterranean island; Cretans were famed as mercenary soldiers and archers.

• The History of Rome, Book 43 §10 Cretan envoys

  Envoys of the Cretan cities, reminded by the Senate to recall the Cretan archers serving in Perseus's garrisons.