Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ancient Greece, a company of fifty soldiers.
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The half company is technically called a pentecostys, and a quarter company an enomoty, and the officers in charge of them respectively penteconter and enomotarch.
Anabasis 2007
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a pentecostys, and a quarter company an enomoty, and the officers in charge of them respectively penteconter and enomotarch.
Anabasis 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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