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Headword:
*(upaspistai/
Adler number: upsilon,162
Translated headword: hypaspists
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] spear-carriers.[1]
"Chosroes had 50 hypaspists and spear-carriers".[2]
Greek Original:*(upaspistai/: dorufo/roi. tw=| de\ *xosro/h| u(paspistai\ kai\ dorufo/roi l# u(ph=rxon.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. 'Spear-carriers' often has the more specific sense of bodyguards, as, seemingly, in the quotation which follows (and cf. generally
delta 1403).
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 4.10.7. (On Chosroes see
chi 418.)
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 March 2006@05:19:45.
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