Epihipparch () is an Ancient Greek military title for a cavalry commander of 1,000 horses. They were powerful and respected. This unit was divided into two ''hipparchiai'' of 500. Each of these was commanded by a ''
hipparchos
Hipparchus (; el, Ἵππαρχος, ''Hipparkhos''; BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician. He is considered the founder of trigonometry, but is most famous for his incidental discovery of the precession of the equi ...
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Military ranks of ancient Greece
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