Slingers
Balearica was also known for its fighting slingers who were heavily recruited as mercenaries by the Romans. Their expertise as slingers is said by historians such as Posidorius, Diodoros and Strabo to be the result of their being made, while children, to earn their daily bread by slinging it off a post from many paces away depending on age. Some slingers fought for Caesar in the Gallic War, and against him at Massalia. The islands are named for their famed fighters - balearica, meaning land of the slinger (ballo) in Greek.
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