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Definition of Enomoty
1. n. A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty- five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.
Definition of Enomoty
1. Noun. (historical Ancient Greece) A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enomoty
1. a band of sworn soldiers in the Spartan army [n ENOMOTIES]
Medical Definition of Enomoty
1. A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath. Origin: Gr, fr. Sworn; in + to swear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enomoty
Literary usage of Enomoty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greece: II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens by George Grote (1900)
"That which was peculiar to the Lacedaemonian drill, was, the teaching a imall
number of men like an enomoty (twenty-five, thirty-two, thirty-six vien, ..."
2. History of Greece by George Grote (1861)
"Given the number of men in front, the depth of the enomoty is of course determined,
without any reference to the discretion of any one. ..."
3. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1823)
"12. decidedly enough to speak of the enomoty, on one great occasion, as of
thirty-six men. Nothing, we well know, is more common than for names to remain ..."
4. The Captains of the Old World: As Compared with the Great Modern Strategists by Henry William Herbert (1852)
"From this it is obvious that the number of men in the enomoty, as indeed the ...
regularly estimated number of men in the original enomoty ; two of which ..."
5. The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis: With Notes Adapted to the by Xenophon, Morris Hicky Morgan (1896)
"In single file the enomoty would be 24 men deep, in double file 12, ... The formation
of the enomoty in any desired order of arrangement was easy, ..."
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