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Headword:
Xenagia
Adler number: xi,18
Translated headword: xenagia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Two five-hundred-man regiments, [i.e.] 1024 men.[1] Most people call this number a chiliarchy and the leader a chiliarch.[2]
Greek Original:Xenagia: duo pentakosiarchiai, andrôn #22akd#. hoi de pleistoi touto to plêthos chiliarchian kalousi kai chiliarchon ton hêgoumenon.
Notes:
For the several meanings of the headword besides the one glossed here see LSJ s.v.; and see also
xi 19,
xi 20.
[1] Twice 500 does not, of course, make 1024; however, entries like the present one reflect the numerical theorizing of Hellenistic (and later) tactical writing, in which the base unit - the syntagma or battalion - comprises an ideal 256 troops (16 ranks by 16 files) and all other figures are multiples of that. See
Asclepiodotus 2.10;
Aelian 9.5-10.
[2] For 'chiliarch' cf.
chi 305.
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica â on 16 February 2000@13:25:25.
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