cataphract

suomi-englanti sanakirja

cataphract englannista suomeksi

1. panssariliivit

1. katafrakti

cataphract englanniksi

1. Defensive armour covering the entire body of a soldier and often the soldier's horse as well, especially the linked mail or scale armour of some eastern nations.

2. (quote-book)|chapter=How the Lines of the Legions are Drawn Up|translator=N. P. Milner|title=re militari|Vegetius: Epitome of Military Science(nb...)|series=Translated Texts for Historians|seriesvolume=16|edition=2nd|location=Liverpool|publisher=Liverpool University Press|year=1996|year_published=2001|section=book II (The Ancient Legion)|page=47|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPK7xjchZFUC&pg=PA47|isbn=978-0-85323-910-9|passage=Those fighting before the standards, around the standards and (otherwise) in the front line were called ''principes'' the centurions and the other under-officers. This was the heavy armament, which had helmets, cataphracts, greaves, shields, large swords called ''spathae'', and other smaller swords called ''semispathia'', ...

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4. An outer covering of some fish resembling armour or plate.

5. Of a galley such as a trireme: with the upper tier of rowers shielded rather than exposed.

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6. (quote-journal)|date=7 April 1876|year_published=1877|volume=XX|issue=LXXXVIII|pages=597–598|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=wYCxuzrLqv4C&pg=PA596-IA3|oclc=425961208|passage=And first we must call attention to the fact that two classes of vessels appear to have been employed, distinguished by the name of "Aphract," unfenced, or "Cataphract," fenced, according as the rowers of the upper tier were protected or exposed. Both classes were decked and floored, but the "Aphract" class carried their decks and flooring lower than the "Cataphract," so that in them the rowers of the upper tier were visible above the side of the vessel; ... From the time of the invention by the Thasians of this system, all the larger vessels of war used by both Greeks and Romans were Cataphract. In the Cataphract trireme, the space allowed for each oarsman was, according to B. Graser, eight square feet per man, and this proportion was observed in the larger vessels up to the octireme.

7. A soldier (especially a horseman) covered with a cataphract ''(etymology 1, sense 1)''.

8. (quote-book),(nb...)|title=The Relection of a Conference Tovching the Reall Presence. Or A Bachelovrs Censvre of a Masters Apologie for Doctour Featley|Featlie|location=Douai|publisher=Lavrence Kellam|year=1635|page=333|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVNOAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA2-PA333|oclc=880496072|passage=He who lookes you in the face, ſaith he ſees you, though the reſt of your bodie be within your cloathes, and if you, being an (lang) a cataphract in your proteſtantiſh (lang) ''panoplía'', suit of armour should for fear pull downe your beuer before you come into the liſt, your Aduerſarie for all that might light vpon your (  ) vnleſſe you bring with you Giges his ring, ſo to make your ſelf inuiſible; ...

9. (RQ:Milton Paradise Regained)

10. (quote-book)|edition=3rd|location=London|publisher=(...) Hansard|Luke Hansard & Sons,(nb...); for Leigh and Sotheby;(nb...)|year=1812|volume=IV|section=footnote 155|page=127|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=hAMPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA127|oclc=987451351|passage=(w) also had these cavalry of Cappadocia and Paphlagonia in his army at the siege of Tigranocerta; and in the battle with the Great|Tigranes made choice of them and the Thracian horse to attack the Cataphracts, the choicest of the enemy's cavalry, and to drive them from the ground.

11. (quote-book)|chapter=Of the Division of Forces into Distinct Classes|mainauthor=Ælian ''i.e.'', (w)|title=The Tactics of Ælian, Comprising the Military System of the Grecians;(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) Cox and Baylis,(nb...), for E. Kerby,(nb...)|year=1814|pages=19–20|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=6tITAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA20|oclc=880970090|passage=Ælian calls the heavy-armed infantry, (lang), ''hoplitæ''; and the heavy horse soldiers, (lang), ''cataphracti'';—we denominate the former completely-armed troops, and the latter cuirassiers.— ... The cuirassiers carried targets and used pikes. The Parthian cataphracts had also bows and arrows.

12. (quote-book)|edition=new (6th)|location=London|publisher=(...) & Davies|Thomas Cadell & William Davies,(nb...)|year=1820|volume=IV|pages=119–120|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ujkLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA119|oclc=29995158|passage=Besides the equestrian archers who fought flying, and wearied out an enemy by often renewed assaults, they had heavy cataphracts or cuirassiers clad in the steel of Margiana (a province immediately eastward of Parthia,) armed with long lances, and bearing a wonderful resemblance in all points to the chivalrous warriors of the middle ages.

13. (quote-book) (''Hist.'' I, 79) says that the Sarmatian cataphracts were rather helpless if knocked off their horses, just like the mediaeval knights. The chief difference was, that whereas the mediaeval knight was armoured all over, the cataphract had no thigh armour under his coat, I suppose because he was riding without stirrups and grip was all-important; it may have been this which led to the invention of stirrups.

14. (quote-book)|year=1933|page=13|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=lrptAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA13|oclc=977222962|passage=The second graffito ..., depicting a cataphract, is unique until now. He is armed with a lance having streamers(?) at its point and is protected by a complete coat of mail. He carries a conical helmet ending in a point from which hangs a piece of mesh protecting his face.

15. A galley with the upper tier of rowers shielded.