Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sagittarii

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SAGITTA'RII. Archers or bowmen, who formed part of the light-armed infantry in the Roman armies. But as the bow was not a national weapon amongst the Romans, the battalions of archers were generally furnished by the allies. (Caes. Sall. Tac. &c.) The illustration (Sagittarii/1.1) represents a German archer from the column of Antoninus.

2. Sagittarii equites (ἱπποτοξόται). Mounted bowmen. Tac. Ann. ii. 16. Curt. v. 4. See HIPPOTOXOTA.

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