Cretan bowmen
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Cretans
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Anabasis
Greek archers whose range limitations are exposed in the first skirmish.
for the Cretan bowmen not only had a shorter range than the Persians, but besides, since they had no armour, they were shut in within the lines of the hoplites;
For at present the enemy can shoot arrows and sling stones so far that neither our Cretan bowmen nor our javelin-men can reach them in reply;
Hellenica
Archers from Crete accompanying the Lacedaemonian army in the battle near Corinth.
Besides these there were horsemen of the Lacedaemonians to the number of about seven hundred, Cretan bowmen who accompanied the army, about three hundred, and, further, slingers of the Marganians, Letrinians, and Amphidolians, not less than four hundred.