Chiliarch

And Dadaces, the chiliarch, spear-struck, Forth from his galley leapt with nimble bound.

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When I had seen it, I halted and turned to look up at the peak on whose slope we walked. I could see the face now and its mitre of ice, and below it the left shoulder, where a thousand cavalrymen might have been exercised by their chiliarch.

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