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Headword: Agêma
Adler number: alpha,220
Translated headword: guard
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The entire detachment; [the word] is found abundantly in Arrian.[1]
Greek Original:
Agêma: to holôs tagma heurêtai kata polu para Arrianôi.
Notes:
See also alpha 219.
[1] e.g. Arrian, Anabasis 1.1.11.
Reference:
A.B. Bosworth, Conquest and Empire: the reign of Alexander the Great (Cambridge 1988) index s.v. "agema (royal guard)".
Keywords: definition; historiography; military affairs
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 October 2000@23:11:01.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and bibliography; cosmetics) on 23 October 2000@07:26:02.
David Whitehead (added note) on 26 April 2002@05:48:33.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 3 January 2012@09:01:20.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 1 July 2024@17:11:09.
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