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2862. kolonia -- a colony (a city settlement of soldiers disbanded ...
... a colony (a city settlement of soldiers disbanded from the Roman army). Part of
Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: kolonia Phonetic Spelling: (kol-o-nee'-ah ...
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2760. kenturion -- a centurion (a Roman army officer)
... a centurion (a Roman army officer). Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration:
kenturion Phonetic Spelling: (ken-too-ree'-ohn) Short Definition: a ...
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2883. Kornelios -- Cornelius, a Roman centurion
... Kornelios Phonetic Spelling: (kor-nay'-lee-os) Short Definition: Cornelius Definition:
Cornelius, a centurion of the Roman army, stationed at Caesarea. ...
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3003. legion -- a legion
... large number Definition: properly: a division of the Roman army, numbering about
6,000 infantry with additional cavalry; hence: a very large number; a legion. ...
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1543. hekatontarches -- a centurion, a captain of one hundred men
... hekatontarches or hekatontarchos Phonetic Spelling: (hek-at-on-tar'-khace) Short
Definition: a centurion Definition: a centurion of the Roman army. ...
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2804. Klaudios -- Claudius, the name of an Emperor, also an army ...
... Claudius, the name of an Emperor, also an army officer. Part of Speech ... Definition:
Claudius Definition: (a) Claudius, the fourth of the Roman Emperors, Tiberius ...
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4759 -- captain of the guard.
... body-guard Definition: commander of the Roman emperor's body-guard. captain of the
guard. From stratopedon and archo; a ruler of an army, ie (specially), a ...
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Library

St. Ambrose Assures Gratian of victory, Declaring that it Has Been ...
... Footnotes: [2089] The disasters here alluded to are the rout of the Roman army,
in 378 ad, at Hadrianople, and the miserable death of the Emperor Valens, who ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xvi st ambrose assures.htm

A Soldier's Training
... That Roman army was the most admirably disciplined which the world till then
had ever seen. So, indeed, was the whole Roman Government. ...
/.../kingsley/town and country sermons/sermon iv a soldiers training.htm

A Second Overthrow of the Persians by the Romans.
... They therefore, on arriving at the place appointed, divided themselves into two
bands, with a view to surround some portion of the Roman army. ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of scholasticus/chapter xx a second overthrow of.htm

How John Tyrannized Over the Rest; and what Mischiefs the Zealots ...
... But when once they were informed that the Roman army lay still, and that the Jews
were divided between sedition and tyranny, they boldly undertook greater ...
/.../chapter 7 how john tyrannized.htm

The Roman Power.
... The Roman army helped him to win back the country; and as the caves in the hills
were full of robbers, he let down soldiers in boxes over the face of the ...
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Destruction of Jerusalem Foretold.
... with the entire paragraph, we can readily see, 1. That it was a sign practically
simultaneous with the compassing of Jerusalem by the Roman army.2. That it was ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/cxiii destruction of jerusalem foretold.htm

Of the Falsity of the Augury by which the Strength and Stability ...
... these things which we have quoted from their books could have been written, but
yet after that auspice was made under king Tarquin, the Roman army has been ...
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Renewal of Hostilities Between the Romans and Persians after the ...
... But the event did not realize these promises; for God infused into the minds of
the Saracens a terrible panic; and imagining that the Roman army was falling ...
/.../chapter xviii renewal of hostilities between.htm

Of the Disasters which Vexed the Roman Republic after the ...
... [152] Where were they when, during ten successive years of reverses, the Roman army
suffered frequent and great losses among the Veians and would have been ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 17 of the disasters which.htm

The Goths
... looked with horror on the constant increase of Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Suevi, and
Vandals, who now not only crowded the ranks of the Roman army, but constituted ...
/.../gathering clouds a tale of the days of st chrysostom/chapter xxv the goths.htm

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