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Trimarcisia (, ''trimarkisia''), i. e., "feat of three horsemen", was an ancient Celtic military cavalry tactic or organisation; it is attested in Pausanias' ''Description of Greece'', in which he described the use of ''trimarcisia'' by the Gauls during their invasion of Greece in the third century BCE.〔 Available online at the Perseus Project.〕 According to Pausanias: Pausanias' view was that the Gauls had adopted this method of fighting by copying the Persian Athanatoi elite force with the difference that while the Persians waited until after a battle was over to replace casualties, the Gauls "kept reinforcing their full number during the height of the action".〔 ==Etymology== According to Pausanias, ''marka'' was the Celtic name for a horse.〔 This corresponds to the root '' *mark-os'' of words for "saddle horse" attested in Celtic and Germanic but not in other Indo-European languages, a root that is of uncertain etymology. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trimarcisia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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