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χιλιαρχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χιλιαρχία

Structure: χιλιαρχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the office or post
  2. tribuni militares

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τοῦτο δὲ διπλασιασθὲν γίγνεται χιλιαρχία, ἀνδρῶν μὲν τεσσάρων καὶ εἴκοσι καὶ χιλίων, λόχων δὲ τεσσάρων καὶ ἑξήκοντα, καὶ ὁ ἐπὶ τούτοισ χιλίαρχοσ. (Arrian, chapter 10 7:2)
  • αἱ δὲ δύο χιλιαρχίαι μεραρχία, δισχιλίων ἀνδρῶν καὶ ὀκτὼ καὶ τεσσαράκοντα, λόχων ὀκτὼ καὶ εἴκοσι καὶ ἑκατόν, καὶ ὁ τούτων ἔξαρχοσ μέραρχοσ. (Arrian, chapter 10 7:3)
  • οὔκουν οὐδὲ ἄλλον τινὰ ἔταξεν ἀντὶ Ἡφαιστίωνοσ χιλίαρχον ἐπὶ τῇ ἵππῳ τῇ ἑταιρικῇ Ἀλέξανδροσ, ὡσ μὴ ἀπόλοιτο τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Ἡφαιστίωνοσ ἐκ τῆσ τάξεωσ, ἀλλὰ Ἡφαιστίωνόσ τε ἡ χιλιαρχία ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ τὸ σημεῖον αὐτῆσ ἡγεῖτο τὸ ἐξ Ἡφαιστίωνοσ πεποιημένον. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 14 10:1)
  • Χρυσάνταν δὲ ὡσ καὶ ἐργάτην τῶν ἐν πολέμῳ καὶ φρόνιμον καὶ ἄρχεσθαι ἱκανὸν καὶ ἄρχειν χιλιαρχίᾳ μὲν ἤδη τιμῶ· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. the office or post

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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