Meaning of hastati | Babel Free

Definitions

first line of the pre-Marian Roman army (before, respectively, the prī̆ncipēs and the triāriī)

declension-2, plural, plural-only

Examples

“Ab Romanis nec opus intermissum—triarii erant, qui muniebant—et ab hastatis principibusque, qui pro munitoribus intenti armatique steterunt, proelium initum.”

The works were not set aside by the Romans—triarii where there to fend off the enemy—and a fight broke out led by the hastati and principes, eager and fully-equiped, who had been placed before the fortification-workers.

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