χιλιάρχων (chiliarchon)

χιλιάρχων is an Ancient Greek form of χιλίαρχος, meaning “commander of a thousand; military tribune”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of χιλιαρχέω, “to be a tribunus militum”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 88 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 2.5: … οι γὰρ οὐ πολὺν χρόνον ἅμα ὥρᾳ θέρους ἔξω στρατεύειν, οἴκοι δὲ διαχειμάζειν, τότε πρῶτον ἠναγκάσθησαν ὑπὸ τῶν χιλιάρχων φρούρια κατασκευασάμενοι καὶ τὸ στρατόπεδον τειχίσαντες ἐν τῇ πολεμίᾳ χειμῶνα καὶ θέρος συνάπτειν, ἤδη σχεδὸν …

All forms of χιλίαρχος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.