A dictionary of Greek and Roman . shapes were used by numerous nationsbefore the adoption of them by the Greeks. Theround target or cetra was a species of the Pelta,and was used especially by the people of Spainand Mauritania. [ The Pelta is alsosaid to have been quadrangular. (Schol. in 29.) A light shield of similar construction waspart of the national armour of Thrace ( 29; Eurip. Alces. 516, Rhes. 407; Max. , vii.) and of various parts of Asia, and was onthis account attributed to the Amazons, in whosehands it appears on the works of ancie
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . shapes were used by numerous nationsbefore the adoption of them by the Greeks. Theround target or cetra was a species of the Pelta,and was used especially by the people of Spainand Mauritania. [ The Pelta is alsosaid to have been quadrangular. (Schol. in 29.) A light shield of similar construction waspart of the national armour of Thrace ( 29; Eurip. Alces. 516, Rhes. 407; Max. , vii.) and of various parts of Asia, and was onthis account attributed to the Amazons, in whosehands it appears on the works of ancient art some-times elliptic, as in the bronzes of Siris (woodcut,p. 712), and at other times variously sinuated onthe margin, but most commonly with a semicir-cular indentation on one side (lunatis peltis, i. 490, xi. 663). An elegant form of thepelta is exhibited in the annexed woodcut, takenfrom a sepulchral urn in the Capitoline Museum atRome, and representing Penthesileia, Queen of theAmazons, in the act of offering aid to PELTASTAE. [Exercitus, p. 487, b. ;Pelta.] PENATES. See Diet, of Gr. and Rom. Myth. PENESTAE (ireueo-Tai), probably from 7reVeo--0c«, operari. (Dionys. ii. 9.) The Penestae ofThessaly are generally conceived to have stood innearly the same relation to their Thessalian lordsas the Helots of Laconia did to the Dorian Spar-tans, although their condition seems to have beenon the whole superior. (Plat. Leg. vi. p. 776.)They were the descendants of the old Pelasgic orAeolian inhabitants of Thessaly proper, and thefollowing account is given of them by an author PENTATHLON. PENTATHLON. 883 called Archemachus, in his Euboica. (Athen. 264.) The Aeolian Boeotians who did notemigrate when their country Thessaly was con-quered by the Thessalians (compare Thuc. i. 12),surrendered themselves to the victors on conditionthat they should not be carried out of the country(whence, he adds, they were formerly calledMevearai, but afterwards Ue
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