The Greek The claim about the Greek soldiers being drawn from the garrisons of Nikli Veligosti Lacedaemon as well as infantry provided by the Slavic Melingoi tribe of Taygetus is an estimate of Bon 1969 pp 61 62 however it is his own personal conclusion There is no such reference in the only sources we have and therefore I removed it from the text As it was written it was misleading being presented as a fact while it is the hypothesis of one author