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Penteconter   Listen
noun
Penteconter  n.  (Written also pentaconter)  (Gr. Antiq.) A Grecian vessel with fifty oars.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... the passage above I have translated {lokhoi} companies, and, as usual, {lokhagoi} captains. 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. These would be equivalent nearly to our subalterns and sergeants, and in the evolutions described would act as guides and markers in charge of their sections. Grote thinks there were six companies formed on each flank—twelve ...
— Anabasis • Xenophon



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