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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(historical) A commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece..
And Dadaces, the chiliarch, spear-struck, Forth from his galley leapt with nimble bound.
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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Chiliarch means (historical) A commander of a thousand troops in Hellenistic Greece..
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And Dadaces, the chiliarch, spear-struck, Forth from his galley leapt with nimble bound.
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