Ἥλικες
age-mates
Translated by Catharine Roth11 Aug 2006Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
This is what they used to call the [members of the] Macedonian close-array of Antiochus Epiphanes: all tall, little more than children, armed and trained in the Macedonian manner; whence they had the designation.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἥλικες· οὕτως ἐλέγοντο οἱ Ἀντιόχου τοῦ Ἐπιφανίου Μακεδόνων στῖφος· ὑψηλοὶ πάντες, ὀλίγον ὑπὲρ ἀντίπαιδας, τὸν Μακεδονικὸν τρόπον ὡπλισμένοι τε καὶ πεπαιδευμένοι· ὅθεν καὶ τὴν ἐπίκλησιν εἶχον.