iapygians造句

• This victory ended Tarentine conflicts with the Iapygians for a full generation.
• Iapygians were akin to the Oenotrians, an ancient Italic people who lived in the territory of Basilicata and Northern Calabria.
• A decade after the catastrophic defeat of Greek hoplites, backed again by a formidable cavalry arm, proved superior to the Iapygians.
• Thus towards the end of the fourth century Rome had become a common enemy for both the Iapygians and the Tarentines, even as far as ending the prolonged battles and causing them to make an alliance.
• Artas made an alliance with Athens somewhere around 430 BC . The Iapygians placed the colony of Taras under constant pressure throughout the 5th century BC and indeed in the 4th century BC and the Hellenistic period as well.
• In the end the hoplites failed to break through the superior Iapygians which destroyed the combined Tarentine / Rhegian force who fled in different directions, in what Herodotus described as  the greatest slaughter of Greeks that is known with 3, 000 Reggians and uncountable Tarentines killed.
• The administration of Micythus appears to have been both wise and vigorous, so that he conciliated the affections of his subjects, and held the government both of Rhegium and Tarentines in their war against the Iapygians ( 473 BC ), which was terminated by a disastrous defeat, in which 3000 of the Rhegians perished, and the fugitives were pursued by the barbarians up to the very gates of the city.