Quote Originally Posted by mAIOR
Skirmishers I guess... They fight in a more similar way to the Hypaspists...
The term peltast meant different things over the centuries. During the Persian wars, peltasts were the equivalent of akantistoi: farmers with a few javelins and a small shield. During the Pelleponesian war, the term started to be used for well-equiped, professional skirmishers, like those in EB. During the Hellenistic age, however, the term is also used to refer to an elite bodyguard or assault corps of the Hellenic kings.

What Abou is trying to say is that the Peltastai-requirement for joining the hystapistoi might not refer to what EB calls peltasts.