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Headword:
Ilê
Adler number: iota,311
Translated headword: troop
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] corps.
[Meaning] concentration, formation of massed cavalry.[1]
But properly [it means] a company: "[let] one troop of men [bring] from the tent [...]."[2]
Eunapius [writes]: "then a troop of armored cavalry, more than 400, fell on the rearguard."[3]
Greek Original:Ilê: sustêma. sustrophê, taxis ochlou hippikou. kuriôs de phatria. mia d' ekklêsias andrôn ilê. Eunapios: tote de ilê tôn kataphraktôn hippeôn huper tous u# es tous opisthophulakas katerragê.
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Reference:
Blockley, R.C. The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Later Roman Empire: Eunapius, Olympiodorus, Priscus and Malchus. Vol. II. Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1983.
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Keywords: definition; historiography; history; military affairs; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 April 2006@12:05:13.
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