chiliarch

English

Noun

chiliarch (plural chiliarchs)

A commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece.
- 1886, Anna Swanwick (translator), The Dramas of Aeschylus, 4th edition, The Persians, page 220, lines 306–307
  And Dadaces, the chiliarch, spear-struck,
  Forth from his galley leapt with nimble bound.

Translations

a commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece

Bulgarian: хилядник (hiljadnik)
French: chiliarque (fr) m
Greek:
Ancient Greek: χιλίαρχος m (khilíarkhos)

Italian: chiliarca m
Persian: هزاربد‎ (hezārbod)

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