noun
dĭmăchae
Meaning
- soldiers who fought both on foot and on horseback
dĭmăchae, ārum, m., = διμάχαι,
I. soldiers who fought both on foot and on horseback, Anglice dragoons; a sort of troops among the Macedonians, Curt. 5, 13, 8.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
dimachae ārum, m
, διμάχαι, mounted infantry, dragoons, Cu.