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χι_λιαρχ-ία , ἡ,
A.office or post of χιλίαρχος, X.Cyr.4.1.4.
2. office of tribunus militum Plu. Cam.38, al., D.C.59.29; ἀπὸ τριῶν χ., = Lat. tribus militiis, IGRom. 4.1204 (Thyatira).
II. unit under the command of a χιλίαρχος, corps of 1024 men, Ascl.Tact.2.10, Ael.Tact.9.6, Arr.Tact.10.5.
2. = χιλιάς, LXXNu.31.48, 1 Ma.5.13.
3. Persian military district, AJA 16.13 (Sardis, iv/iii B. C.).
III. = χιλιετηρίς, applied to work by Asinius Quadratus, St.Byz. s.v. Ὀξύβιοι (cf. “χιλιάς” 11).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 4.1.4
    • Old Testament, 1 Maccabees, 5.13
    • Old Testament, Numbers, 31.48
    • Plutarch, Camillus, 38
    • Arrian, Tactica, 10.5
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 59.29
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