Epistates
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Military use
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New Testament usage
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References
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Antigonos Gonatas By William Woodthorpe Tarn Page 195
- ↑ Asclepiodotus, Tactica, 2.3
- ↑ Arr.Tact.6.6