How To Use cataphract In A Sentence
- In the morning a cataphract from Ardor had the audacity to stare at Sire Galan as he marched along. Wildfire
- The later kings become increasingly heavily armored in this period and it is more than likely that the heavy cataphracts often discussed reaches numbers that are truly significant on the battlefield.
- He spoke to one cataphract or another to give them encouragement, but he had not the ease to make other men easy, as our king did—had done, when he was alive. Wildfire
- Coming to the landing, I saw two cataphracts, an anagnost reading prayers, Master Gurloes, and a young woman. The Shadow of the Torturer
- Roman cataphracts wore similar armour from the second century ad, and transmitted the tradition of armouring arms and legs to the heaviest units of the Byzantine cavalry.
- One cataphract from the clan of Lynx slipped away with his armiger, horseboy, and jack, and when he was caught the king made no more speeches of good riddance. Wildfire
- However, its importance should not be overemphasized, for very effective heavy cavalry - notably the cataphracts of the Byzantine empire - had coped well without it.
- The cataphract and armiger were given more honorable deaths. Wildfire
- The cataphracts were introduced into the Seleukid army in the Hellenistic era.
- It also received several blows of the sword on the face, but, wearing as it did a cataphract made of sinew, it was not hurt, nor were the blows effective. De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Campaigns of Emperor Herakleios (620-6), according to the Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor
