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Definition of Navarchs
1. navarch [n] - See also: navarch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Navarchs
Literary usage of Navarchs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Xenophon by Xenophon, Henry Graham Dakyns (1890)
"... did that Sparta was the leading state, and that whatever a Laconian officer
willed was law, he had somewhat coquetted with and humoured the navarchs and ..."
2. Readings in Greek History, from Homer to the Battle of Chaeronea: A by Ida Carleton Thallon (1914)
"... also in single line, and supporting them, the three ships of the navarchs,
with any other allied vessels in the squadron. The right wing was entrusted ..."
3. The Politics and Economics of Aristotle by Aristotle, John Gillies (1853)
"... but where there are horse and light-armed troops, and bowmen, and sailors,
they sometimes place over each of these distinct commanders, called navarchs ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"... navarchs, on the subject of arrears of pay and the booty of Na- poli, which
the capitani were unwilling to divide with the islanders, had a bad effect ..."
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