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Webster 1913 Edition
Chiliarch
{
Chil′i-an
,Chil′i-archˊ
, }Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK];
χίλιοι
a thousand + [GREEK] leader, [GREEK] to lead.] The commander or chief of a thousand men.
Webster 1828 Edition
Chiliarch
CHILIARCH
,Noun.
Definition 2024
chiliarch
chiliarch
English
Noun
chiliarch (plural chiliarchs)
- A commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece.
- 1886, Anna Swanwick (translator), The Dramas of Aeschylus, 4th edition, The Persians, page 220, lines 306–307
- And Dadaces, the chiliarch, spear-struck,
Forth from his galley leapt with nimble bound.
- And Dadaces, the chiliarch, spear-struck,
- 1886, Anna Swanwick (translator), The Dramas of Aeschylus, 4th edition, The Persians, page 220, lines 306–307
Translations
a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece
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