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τετραρχ-ία , ἡ,
A.tetrarchy, the province of a tetrarch, esp. of Thessaly, the four provinces being Thessaliotis, Phthiotis, Pelasgiotis, Hestiaeotis, Hellanic. 52J., E Alc.1154, D.9.26, Theopomp.Hist.201; also of the four divisions of each of the three Galatian tribes, Str.12.5.1; ἡ τῶν δώδεκα τ. βουλή v.l. ibid.; cf. “τετράς” 11.
2. generally, of the divisions of Roman protectorates, e.g. Palestine under Augustus, J.BJ2.6.3; districts adjacent to Syria, tetrarchiae regnorum instar singulae, Plin.HN5.74.
II. τ. ἱππική the command of four λόχοι, Arr.An. 3.18.5, cf. Id.Tact.10.1, Ael.Tact.9.2, Ascl.Tact.2.8; Φιλίππου τετραρχίας ἔργον monument erected by Philip's τ., IG9(1).316 (Scarphea, Locr. Orient., iv B.C.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Demosthenes, Philippic 3, 26
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 2.6.3
    • Strabo, Geography, 11
    • Strabo, Geography, 12.5.1
    • Arrian, Anabasis, 3.18.5
    • Arrian, Tactica, 10.1
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