Iphicratenʹsians
.The best trained and bravest of the Greek soldiers were so called from Iphicrătēs, an Athenian general. (See Fabian Soldiers.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.